The New Cold War Has No Borders: Building the Sovereign Stack
Nation-state actors are running intelligence operations against neo-finance protocols, sovereign AI infrastructure, and the hacker community’s communications networks. The government response follows a predictable pattern: external threat becomes justification for internal control. That cycle is unfolding now in legislation pushing toward mandatory identity verification for Internet access. Frontier AI is becoming a tiered resource, accessible to states and institutions, rationed to everyone else. The question is not whether centralized control infrastructure gets built. The question is whether alternative infrastructure can emerge and survive before it arrives. This talk examines the sovereign stack as a unified strategic response and explores how OSINT tradecraft can expose infiltration attempts before a technical compromise occurs. Both are anchored in a framework first articulated in 2012: how do you build systems that remain operational long enough to shape the next battle?
Friday 2000 Grand Ballroom