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Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the US
A legal analysis examines how policymakers increasingly frame diverse policy issues, including misinformation, content moderation, antitrust, and anti-trafficking efforts, as cybersecurity problems. This reframing grants these issues an aura of urgency and existential threat, potentially bypassing normal deliberation and deferring to expert-driven solutions that may oversimplify underlying problems and reduce governance transparency.
Why it matters: Security practitioners should understand how cybersecurity framing influences policy and regulatory priorities, as this conceptual drift may distort threat prioritization, erode institutional credibility, and shape which technical and organizational controls receive government mandate and funding.
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