-
Robert Chesney and Steve Vladeck examined if there was a coherent middle ground in the Apple vs. FBI All Writs Act dispute.
Cody Poplin flagged DOJ’s motion to postpone its hearing on the San Bernardino...
-
At Time I have a piece examining the DOJ indictments of the Iranians allegedly involved in the DDOS cyberattacks on financial services in New York. The Iranians appear to have been indicted for retali...
-
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced today that a senior Islamic State operative was killed during a special operations raid in Syria.
-
Lawfare is pleased to announced the publication of a new paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History by Tony Rutkowski.
From the abstract:
-
Ben Wittes and Susan Hennessey deserve many responses to their ongoing arguments about Apple and the court case. It's very much on my to-do list, but I have been busy. I will confine myself here to corre...
-
China suffered two major setbacks in the South China Sea this week. First, sparks flew between the PRC and Indonesia when the bungled seizure of a Chinese fishing vessel in Indonesian waters almost led t...
-
China opened up a new front for South China Sea conflict this week when one of its coast guard vessels collided with an Indonesian coast guard ship in the process of towing a captured Chinese vessel alle...
-
In the first two parts of this series, I noted the general tendencies of the FBI’s critics to assume away the problems posed by Going Dark by insisting that the NSA—or the intelligence community more bro...
-
In Part I of this series, I noted the tendency of commentators—without any actual knowledge—to assert that NSA could simply break into a given locked iPhone.
-
Editor's Note: This piece originally appears on Markaz.
-
Some security officials are indicating that the Islamic State has trained at least 400 fighters to attack Europe in “deadly waves of attacks.” The Associated Press tells us that the terrorist group, resp...
-
Let’s start with a point that will be significant emotional satisfaction to many readers: Richard Clarke was dead wrong.
In a remarkable statement last week, the former Clinton and early Bush adminis...
-
An interesting debate has developed recently among the justices of the Israeli Supreme Court over the legality of Israel’s use of home demolitions as a counterterrorism measure. This longstanding practic...
-
The Saudi decision to flood the oil market—otherwise known as the oil price rollercoaster we are currently riding—is what Andrew Scott Cooper calls the “oil trade’s equivalent of dropping a bomb on a riv...
-
Bloomberg Business is reporting that now that the FBI may have a way into the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, Apple wants it to disclose what it’s doing. “Apple lawyers on Monday said that if the case pr...
-
Terrorists attack Brussels in a series of bombings. The FBI tells Apple, “Just kidding!
-
What kind of internet world order does China want, and will it succeed? That’s the question we ask Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relation and author of The Hack...
-
The manhunt continues in Belgium, following yesterday’s attacks in Brussels that left 31 dead and 270 injured.
-
Who is helping the FBI crack the Apple iPhone? Some skeptics say "noone." Other conspircy theorists say, "the NSA." Now Reuters tells us it is an Israeli firm.
Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mob...
-
The Brussels terror attacks, like the Paris attacks last year, were an assault on European values of democracy and human rights. While Brussels has a serious problem with violent extremism—it has contrib...
.png?sfvrsn=2ac30ff3_5)
