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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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1 Introduction 1
1.1 Organising Internet security 3
1.2 The rise of remote collaboration 4
1.3 Existence and viability of peer security production 5
1.4 Research plan 11
2 Theoretical Foundations 15
2.1 Social production and the collaborative turn 16
2.2 The Internet security governance challenge 42
2.3 Secrecy vs. openness 54
2.4 Peer production of Internet security 67
3 Research Design 75
3.1 Research strategy 77
3.2 Analytical model 81
3.3 Data collection and analysis 86
4 Endangering the Internet 91
4.1 Estonian cyberattacks: A country sort of under attack 92
4.2 Conficker botnet: Wasted talent for doom 108
5 Producing Internet Security 123
5.1 Estonia 124
5.2 Conficker 142
5.3 Conclusion 161