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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: (Groucho) Marxism and Red Lines in Cyberspace
In episode 133, our guest is The Grugq, famous in hacker circles but less so among Washington policymakers. -
Online Incitement, Foreign Terrorist Fighters, and the Dutch Context Investigation
On December 10, 2015, the District Court of The Hague convicted eight men and one woman for a range of terrorist offenses in the biggest terrorism trial the Netherlands has ever seen. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States destroyed three Houthi-controlled radar installations in Yemen that were reportedly used to target an American warship in two failed missile attacks over the past four days, reports the... -
FCC to Vote on ISP Privacy Rules
In early 2015, the Federal Communications Commission reclassified broadband internet as a telecommunications service, a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, and approved long-deba... -
Lawful Hacking and the Case for a Strategic Approach to “Going Dark”
As part of a series on "Election 2016 and American's Future," I recently released a Brookings policy brief on a strategic approach to “Going Dark” for the next administration. Recognizing the current dea... -
Easing Access to Assets for Victims of Narcoterrorism
As the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act enjoys the lion’s share of attention, another bill aimed at facilitating compensation for American victims of terrorist attacks seems to be sailing below ... -
The Power To Wage War Successfully
A little more than 99 years ago, and several months after the United States declared its entry into the Great War against the Central Powers of Europe, Charles Evans Hughes declared in a widely publicize... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Islamic State used a small drone booby-trapped with an explosive payload against Kurdish forces last week, the New York Times reports. The group has been using small, commercially-available drones fo... -
The International Legal Dynamics of Encryption
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Is US Cyber Deterrence Strategy More than (Russian) Roulette?
Following the joint statement from DHS and ODNI accusing Russia of a recent spate of hacks aimed at influencing the US election, the obvious question is what exactly the US government plans to do about it. -
The Next Secretary-General and the International Political Environment That Awaits Him
The U.S. presidential election is not the only election currently going on in the world. This is also the season for the U.N. to select a new Secretary-General to replace the current S.G., Ban Ki-Moon. -
The Next President’s Fight Against Terror
That is the title of a conference Ben and I are participating in next week in D.C. at New America, in conjunction with Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the McCain Institu...
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