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Apple's Cloud Key Vault and Secure Law Enforcement Access
Michael Specter and the “Keys Under Doormats” (KUD) group have an interesting post, entitled “Apple's Cloud Key Vault, Exceptional Access, and False Equivalences” responding to my earlier post on Apple’s... -
President Obama Should Veto JASTA
Steve Vladeck and I disagreed about the virtues and vices of the original JASTA bill. But we agree that the version of JASTA now on its way to the President’s desk—which reflects dramatic changes introd... -
Livestream of "The National Security Division at 10: Past, Present, and Future"
A major event celebrating ten years of the Justice Department's National Security Division is taking place at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Here's the livestream:Here's ...
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A nationwide ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia is mostly holding across Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it has not recorded a civilian death from fighting in... -
Middle East Ticker: A New Syrian Ceasefire and a Saudi-Iran Oil Spat
What to expect from the new ceasefire in Syria. -
A New Drone Use We Can All Support?
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Russia and Libya: A Brief History of an On-Again-Off-Again Friendship
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Order from Chaos. *** -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 9/9 Session: 1,300 Pounds of Discovery
It’s Friday, we’re wrapping up the first week back in Al Nashiri, and al-Nashiri himself is back in the courtroom. After some characteristically Guantanamo housekeeping—with only one courtroom, Judge Spa... -
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determin... -
CYBERCOM's Upcoming Law Conference
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Why Central Americans Keep Coming
Over the past eleven months, 42,405 Central American unaccompanied children under the age of eighteen have been picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol, in addition to another 61,575 families. That’s on top ... -
The ICANN and IANA Transition End Game
Two years ago, the Obama Administration announced its decision to allow a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to lapse. The practical implicaiton of that decisio...