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Editor’s Note: Terrorist groups typically rely on tried and true tactics such as shootings, bombings, and of course suicide attacks. These and a handful of other methods represent the vast majority of te...
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Is it just me or is everyone being infantile about the fact that Russia bugged some US diplomatic communications. The State Department is reaching for the smelling salts because, gasp!, they're spying on...
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The Russian Business Network is active in Sochi. Lookingglass sees significant criminal assets in Sochi and warns against using 4G networks. Not the same as the NBC story -- but still a cautionary note...
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Here is the audio from Monday's event at the Berkman Center at Harvard, "Defending an Unowned Internet." I have edited it slightly for length. The intervention by Tim Berners-Lee, for those interested in...
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As the week began, we found ourselves in the middle of one of our own stories as we persevered through a new round of cyberattacks.
Nevertheless Lawfare continued apace. Ben brought us the next installm...
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As Wells noted last week, there was a significant decision regarding FISA, in the Northern District of Illinois, on January 29th. In the case of United States v. Daoud, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman order...
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Released today: this quite significant order, containing the district court's findings of fact and conclusions of law in Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security---or the "No-Fly List Case" [h/t Wired]...
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This just in from the Post's Ellen Nakashima:
The National Security Agency is collecting less than 30 percent of all Americans’ call records because of an inabilit
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The plans to reform the NSA that President Obama laid out in his speech in January are taking shape.
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I posted a link earlier this week to a story from NBC about getting hacked in Russia. Turns out at least one security researcher thinks that the story was overstated. His word, is "fabricated" -- and a...
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Pass the smelling salts! They're using espionage on our people for their strategic purposes.
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That is the title of this press release by Senator Jeff Merkley, announcing a resolution “calling for Congress to have a role in approving any further United States military involvement in Afghanistan af...
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The Sochi Olympics begin today. While you’re all intimately familiar with the dire living conditions, the reporting difficulties, and the stray dogs, maintaining security is no easy feat. Rep.
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David Ignatius agrees with me, though he probably doesn't know it :-). As I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Ignatius thinks that the paradoxical and unfortunate result of the Snowden disclosures may ...
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That's the word from Guantanamo. We hope to have an updated schedule for the case soon; it looks like the next pre-trial session will be convened in April.
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Over at the Cyborgology blog, a woman named Whitney Erin Boesel has a thoughtful write-up of the Berkman Center event I spoke at the other day---and on which I posted my own thoughts here. Here's her las...
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Charges against detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi were today referred to a military commission. Al Darbi, a Saudi citizen and alleged brother-in-law of 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar, has been...
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My money is on the Russians. NBC reports being hacked before the cup of coffee is served in Sochi:
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Here's his response, published at Just Security, to my post this morning about legal density and NSA:
Over at Lawfare, Ben Wittes is making excuses for the intelligence officials who’ve been saying th...
