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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, becoming the first woman to become a major party nominee in the United States. Clinton por... -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released the following remarks yesterday at Guantanamo Bay preceding pre-trial hearings in Khalid Sheikh Mohammad et al. The hearings today and yesterda... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: Vlad's Cojones
I know we promised to take August off, but I was inspired by the flap over the DNC hack and the fact that I’m at the Aspen Homeland Security Working Group meeting in Colorado. I waylaid two former intell... -
"The Loneliest Job": Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and the Moral Requirements of the Presidency
President Obama’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention has been widely understood as pointed thematic rebuke of Donald Trump. -
Lessons from Gaza: The Rhetoric and Reality of Independence in War Crimes Investigations
Critics of state investigations of alleged violations of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) often accuse those inquiries of being insufficiently independent from the chain of command. Medicins Sans (MSF, a... -
Two Factor Authentication and SMS -- No More
All are, by now, no doubt familiar with two factor authentication. It is the idea that when I try and log-in somewhere besides my user name and password I have to give additional authentication that ver... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
U.N. Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura urged the United States and Russia to work together in reducing violence in the wartorn country, warning that any breakdown of collaboration between the two powers cou... -
7/25 Session: Secret Detention, Ticking Clocks, and Sitting Alone at the Defense Table
Pre-trial hearings continue Monday morning at Guantanamo Bay in the case of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks. -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: The Podcast Goes to the Conventions
If Vladimir Putin can do it, so can we. This week the podcast dives deep into the US presidential campaign. -
A Judicial Framework for Evaluating Network Investigative Techniques
At Motherboard, Joseph Cox reports that defense attorneys representing dozens of defendants nabbed in an FBI child pornography sting have pooled their resources in a “national working group.” A Network I... -
By November, Russian Hackers Could Target Voting Machines
Editor's Note: This essay originally appeared in the Washington Post. Russia was behind the hacks into the Democratic National Committee’s computer network that led to the release of thousands of intern... -
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