title: INFRASTRUCTURAL INSECURITY: GEOPOLITICS IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
abstract: This paper argues that the production of ‘infrastructural insecurity’ is an inherent part of the standardization of information networks. Infrastructural insecurity is the outcome of an intentional process within infrastructural production, standardization, and maintenance that leaves end-users of the infrastructure vulnerable to attacks that benefit a particular actor. We ground this analysis in an interrogation of the responses to the disclosure of three security vulnerabilities in telecommuni
journal: AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research