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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Baghdad is in trouble. Following a deadly week of Islamic State attacks in Baghdad, the United States is now urging Iraq not to pull back troops from the front lines against the terrorist group in order ... -
A Quick Note on Building Webcams
In his recent post on sextortion as cybersecurity, Benjamin Wittes rightly points out that every webcam should have a physical cover or off-switch. I want to add an additional technical point: Even barri... -
Classified Legislation: Tracking Congress’s Library of Secret Law
Most citizens assume that all of the law Congress writes is public. That is not, in fact, true. Our general norm of publishing law has a significant and largely overlooked legislative exception: classifi... -
War in Syria: Diplomacy and the Balance of Power
Editor's Note: This post is adapted from testimony offered before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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Call for Papers: The "Bobby R. Inman Award" for Student Scholarship on Intelligence
The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the second round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelli... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Dmitri Alperovitch
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Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement yesterday prior to this week's military commission pre-trial hearings in the case of Abd al Hadi al Iraqi. Keep an eye on... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The international community is looking to up the pressure on ISIS in Libya, and its turning to the newly minted Government of National Accord to do so. Yesterday, the United States along with 24 other na... -
Legislative Response on Sextortion
In the week since the release of our sextortion reports, there have been a number of encouraging signs of legislative interest in the problem. The day Brookings released the reports, Rep. -
Sextortion, Online Harassment, and Violence Against Women
Like many of us on the internet, sextortionists rely on pseudonyms to carry out their work, whether in order to hide their identity online or to affirmatively present a false one. -
The All-China Cyber Edition
China Targets US Tech Companies in Security Reviews. "Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pos...
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