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Three items of particular interest to our cyber warfare aficionados in today's Bits and Bytes (plus one lagniappe on the Internet of Things):
Developments in Iranian Cyber Warfare 2013-14. From the In...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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On Thursday, President Obama signed an executive order authorizing the Department of the Treasury to impose sanctions on certain individuals and entities involved in the conflict in South Sudan. The orde...
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Editor’s Note: The Arab Spring and the subsequent backlash from authoritarian regimes have created new rifts in the Middle East. One of the biggest new divides is between those who support and those who ...
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"The National Security Agency at the Crossroads" was a two-day conference organized by Lawfare's Bobby Chesney, and held earlier this week at the University of Texas' Strauss Center for International Sec...
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Henry V’s claim to the throne of France is “as clear as is the summer’s sun,” explains the Archbishop of Canterbury in Shakespeare’s play. The joke, of course, is that he has come to this conclusion fol...
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Let’s begin with NSA news: Wells flagged a joint DNI and AG statement announcing that the government will seek a 90-day extension of the current 215 program as an interim measure pending reform legislati...
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Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has thrown out the Bivens suit by the families of Anwar Al-Aulaqi and his son, and Samir Khan, all of whom were U.S. citizen...
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As we noted earlier, the Administration is proposing to transfer a significant Internet function (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) to an international NGO. As you may imagine the proposal has ge...
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The D.C. Circuit has just handed down a 12-page decision in Abdullah v. Obama, affirming the district court's denial of Abdullah's motion to enjoin the U.S. government from detaining him. Hani Saleh Rash...
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The annual WeRobot program has emerged as the key conference on the legal, policy, moral, and other normative questions related to robotics.
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In the aftermath of Wednesday’s tragic shooting at Fort Hood, we begin to consider how this could have happened. The New York Times explains that Wednesday’s deadly shooting is eerily reminiscent of a sh...
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Published by Princeton University Press (2013)
Reviewed by Steven Aftergood
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Likely you know by now of this afternoon's 11-3 vote.
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A moment of levity from the NSA conference Bobby is hosting down at University of Texas. Towards the end of an excellent discussion between Hanni Fakhoury, Benjamin Powell and Ahmed Ghappour about the fu...
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Cyber security maven Dan Geer has given three speeches in the last six months that are worth a read: (a) APT in a World of Rising Interdependence, given last month at the NSA; (b) We Are All Intelligence...
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The leading, and tragic, news is a shooting yesterday at Fort Hood by an Iraq War veteran who killed three and wounded sixteen before killing himself. According to reports, the shooter, Ivan Lopez, was b...
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Sean Mirski, a Lawfare contributor, has a case note in the Harvard Law Review on the Second Circuit’s important post-Kiobel decision in Balintulo v.
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Here is a livestream of the conference, taking place today and tomorrow at the University of Texas, "The National Security Agency at the Crossroads."
