Herb Lynn

Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University · 1 appearance on the record.

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Herb Lin researches offensive cyber operations, information warfare, and the strategic risks posed by emerging technologies to national security. He is the author of Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons and previously served on President Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.

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3 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Lynn: Stuxnet was not the first malware causing physical damage

“It did have physical consequences. It was certainly not by any means the first time.”

Herb Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:19 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

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Assertion Supported

Lynn: Stuxnet was not the first malware causing physical damage

“It did have physical consequences. It was certainly not by any means the first time.”

Herb Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:19 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

Insight

Lynn: Reputational damage from cyber breaches is not unique

“What I was saying is that it's not new to cyber. ... No matter whatever stupid thing you do, it damages your brand.”

Herb Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:26 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

Insight

Lynn: Cyber weapons span a continuum from mild annoyances to total destruction

“There has been a trend away from weapons that have a very large boom to weapons that have a much smaller boom. And there's a sense in which cyber weapons can do something with, just do an annoyance to somebody, to something that might, you know, destroy the en…”

Herb Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:44 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Lynn: Nations increasingly recognize the high operational utility of cyber weapons

“Cyber weapons are the, are weapons that are eminently usable for a variety of purposes. And one of the most interesting things of the past 10 years is that nations are starting to wake up to this. They're starting to see that these weapons are enormously usabl…”

Herb Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:33 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Lynn: Stuxnet alerted nation-states to physical cyber attacks

“I was totally wrong about that, because what it did was it woke states up, policymakers up, to the possibility that this was a possible, feasible thing to do.”

Herb Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:40 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room	Jan 2, 2019	7m

Herb Lynn

The record, in short

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