Hardening Digital Infrastructure: Two Examples

Strachey Lectures · May 27, 2026 · 1h 2m

Trinity Term 2026 Strachey Lecture with Professor Srđan Čapkun, Hardening Digital Infrastructure: Resilient Positioning and Sovereign Smartphone Architectures. Recent global events have underscored how failures in isolation, redundancy, and control can jeopardiseessential digital functions. A critical challenge remains: how do we harden systems for higher resiliency, personal and societal control while maintaining compatibility with existing ecosystems? In this talk, I explore this in two example settings. First, I address the systemic vulnerabilities of current satellite positioning systems…