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Four years ago, there was the Heartbleed problem, a common-mode failure among products that were compliant with a particular networking standard—products that were inherently vulnerable to attack by way ...
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In Part II of my lengthy conversation with my former colleague Michael Doran, we talk in detail about the Russia investigation. Doran is a Middle East policy specialist, who served in the George W. Bush ...
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Lawfare began the year with a series of reflections on the state of the Trump presidency. Carrie Cordero examined the developments in President Trump’s relationship with the intelligence community throug...
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I wrote about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks for CNN and my blog. The piece begins:
This is bad, but expect it more and more. Several trends are converging in a way that makes our current system of p...
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The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a brief in D.C. federal district court saying the U.S. citizen that the Defense Department is holding in military detention wants the ACLU to represent...
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President Donald Trump instructed the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Justice Department’s Russian investigation in March of last...
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At a Senate intelligence committee hearing in November on Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S. Elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said about Russian interference in the 2016 election, “What we're talkin...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider a cert petition in Defense Distributed v. State Department as part of its conference today. A little over a year ago, I wrote a post for Lawfare detailing the c...
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The United States successfully negotiated research-use exceptions to export controls on surveillance tools at the December 2017 meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement, a club of advanced economies that coo...
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One puzzle that deepens with Mike Schmidt’s New York Times story on “Trump’s Struggle to Keep [a] Grip on [the] Russia Investigation” is why Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has not recused himself...
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Dueling high level strategy documents in both the United States and China portend an intensifying competition for leadership and influence at the global systemic level. The coming years are likely to see...
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This evening, the New York Times published a story with new details of significance to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation regarding the President and obstruction of justice. Michael Schmidt r...
