{"title": "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft", "start": "2026-10-27T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/technology/it-security", "history"], "description": "A seminar on cybersecurity as a form of secret statecraft, held at King's College London's Strand Campus. Jon Lindsay of the Georgia Institute of Technology presents his book Age of Deception, arguing that trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion and that success in such secret statecraft depends on political context more than technology. The event is chaired by Sir David Omand, a Visiting Professor at King's who formerly directed GCHQ.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/age-of-deception-cybersecurity-as-secret-statecraft-36784/", "official_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/age-of-deception-cybersecurity-as-secret-statecraft", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35cefabb3521b03fe71ab5901978c133afcf769be44ee574d8b59aa105cbb533-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'", "start": "2026-11-10T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/let-record-show-storytelling-genocide-and-palestinian-liberation", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/media"], "description": "A book launch for 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power', hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute and the SOAS South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London. The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. 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