The Speaker Series explored how increasing use of encryption has forced authoritarian governments to innovate in the field of information controls.  No longer able to easily block undesirable information outright, governments turn to novel controls such as Internet disruptions targeted at certain areas or individual users, attacking overseas websites sharing undesirable information, and the use of targeted electronic surveillance to identify and arrest users who share undesirable information.  Bill Marczak’s presentation identified the various actors involved in these new types of information controls, including governments, cyber mercenary groups, cyber militias, commercial vendors, and the tools and technology they use.