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Fragile Computing - How to Live with Insecure Technologies

SecHuman Alumna Laura Kocksch is introducing her monograph with a book launch at RUB on June 26th, 2024.

Laura Kocksch, SecHuman Alumna and currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Aalborg University in Copenhagen is introducing her monograph “Fragile Computing – How to Live with Insecure Technologies” (Palgrave Macmillan) with a book launch

  • at RUSTlab MB 4/165
  • on June 26th, 2024, 16hrs.

Based on substantial ethnographic work in critical infrastructures in Germany, the book presents different ways of handling digital security in everyday practices: Testing, Tinkering, Preparing, Producing. Fragile Computing suggests understanding cybersecurity not as a problem, but as a practice: seeing the work of users, administrators and developers as sites of re-articulation of what security is and how to attend to it. In practice, cybersecurity is often not about finding discreet solutions or absolute security, but about finding ways of living with partially insecure systems, forging compromise, and caring for uneasy patchworks. Cybersecurity is mundane, not spectacular; messy, not straight forward. What is fragile is precious, but brittle, needs care but evades conclusive fixes, is both demanding and flexible.

A short note of interest to attend is preferred but not mandatory: laurak@ikl.aau.dk.
Snacks and drinks will be provided.

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