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More on Securing the Election
Over at the Richmond Times-Dispatch I have an op-ed entitled Act Now To Prevent Election Cyberattack. In it, I argue that - in 9/11 parlance - "the system is blinking red" and we should listen to the tec... -
The Week That Will Be
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National Security Adaptations to Below Established Threshold Activities
Two broad themes emerge when viewing 20th century national security history through a military capability lens: (1) Deterrence works and (2) Competitors adapt. This second phenomenon requires that the US... -
Partnering with Iran to Counter ISIS?
Editor's Note: The U.S. struggle against the Islamic State is hamstrung by too many enemies and too few allies. Not only is the United States fighting the Islamic State, but it also opposes the Syrian re... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Walter Pincus on ‘The Norms of National Security Reporting’
Walter Pincus, the Washington Post’s recently-retired national security reporter, sat down with Benjamin Wittes at the Hoover Book Soiree to discuss Walter's recent essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and the... -
More DNC Leaks
The New York Times is reporting more leaks from the Democrat party email hoard: "A hacker believed to be tied to the Russian intelligence services made public another set of internal Democratic Party doc... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes broke down the newly released “Drone Playbook” and why this is another sign that we need a morally serious president. Robert Loeb notified us of a lawsuit that grieving parents of two fa... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
U.S.-backed forces battling the Islamic State stated on Friday that they had launched a final assault to flush the remaining ISIS fighters out of the city of Manbij. The Syria Democratic Forces, buttress... -
Hanging Internet Users Out to Dry
Over the past few months, a team at Mozilla has been looking closely at the recent remote hacking cases currently winding their way through the courts. Because the cases involve the possible disclosure o... -
The Law Under Attack in Pakistan
Earlier this week, a suicide bomber outside a crowded hospital in Quetta, Pakistan killed at least 74 people, most of them judges or lawyers, and wounded dozens more. Yesterday, another blast in Quetta w... -
The Legality of Donald Trump's Proposal to Try US Citizens by Military Commission
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made headlines once again yesterday by saying that he would be “fine” with trying American citizens accused of terrorism in military commissions at Guantanamo... -
Apple at BlackHat: Reopening the "Going Dark" Debate
Just over a week ago, at the BlackHat hacker convention in Las Vegas, Ivan Krstić, Head of Security Engineering and Architecture at Apple gave a talk entitled “Behind the scenes of iOS Security,” the sli...
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