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What follows is a guest post from Nicholas Weaver, a computer security researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley:
Properly configured, an iOS device is perhaps the most sec...
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I just posted a short piece to SSRN entitled, “Checks and Balances from Abroad.” The piece, written for a University of Chicago Law School symposium on national security, technology, and the separation ...
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In this episode Aaron talks to Jacob Zenn about the group commonly referred to as Boko Haram. They covered a variety of topics including:
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New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has called for Taliban unity in the wake of Mullah Omar’s death, the BBC reports: “division in our ranks will only please our enemies.” Mullah Mansour also appear...
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Hacking the hackers. Companies are getting more aggressive in responding to attacks, but the law limits how far they can go.
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Vladymyr Khlepitko and his fiancée Yana Marek look like a normal couple sitting outside the Boulangerie Artisan café in downtown Kyiv. Two trendy young Ukrainians sipping lemonades in the hot summer sun,...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, August 3rd at 11:30 am: The Hudson Institute will convene a panel on Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare: An Evolving Challenge. Lunch will b...
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Using counterterrorism as a lens for seeing the Middle East, as the Obama administration so often does, has helped the United States achieve several important successes against the Al Qaeda core and avoi...
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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
God says:
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David Sanger has a very damning story on the USG’s struggles to figure out how to respond to the OPM hack. It has decided it has to do something, Sanger tells us, but it cannot decide what to do, or whe...
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Last week, the podcast featured Aspen Security Forum interviews with a trio of Obama administration national security officials. This week is Part II, wherein we share edited discussions at the Aspen Sec...
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This week’s Lawfare Podcast features interviews from the Aspen Security Forum with—among others—FBI Director James Comey, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers.
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It isn't every day you have an exchange with a journalist who just comes out and admits—twice, actually—that a story in his publication contains made up facts.
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A few days ago, Ashley had an excellent post flagging an important shift in U.S.
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Fault lines are already appearing as the Taliban scrambles to explain and restructure after the death (some time back) of Mullah Omar. Yesterday, a group of senior Taliban leaders elected Mullah Akhtar M...
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الحمدلله رب العلمین والصلوة والسلام علی رسوله محمد و علی آله وأصحابه أجمعین و بعد
Our Muslim Brothers!
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم
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The results are in. Lawfare's “Name that Database” contest is now closed.
All we can say is that Lawfare readers are a remarkably creative—and scary—bunch of folks. Some of these ideas are really qui...
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Five year-old Mavi Marmara case tests independence of ICC prosecutor: In May 2010, a flotilla of activists sailed from Turkey in an attempt to break through the Israeli naval blockade on the Hamas-contro...
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We expected our piece on liability standards with respect to encryption would provoke strong reactions. We did not expect ad hominim attacks, outright lies, or a near-total failure to engage our legal an...
