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The Ground Truth About Encryption
Just in time for today's hearing on Capitol Hill, and for the RSA Conference in San Francisco, The Chertoff Group has released a white paper entitled "The Ground Truth About Encryption and The Consequenc... -
Reforming Mutual Legal Assistance Needs Engagement Beyond the U.S.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on conflicts of law and mutual legal assistance (MLA)—how to fulfill law enforcement requests for stored data in an era when transnational Internet... -
Apple v. FBI Primer #2: On Judge Orenstein's Ruling in the Queens Meth Case
What follows below is the second in a series of primers for those who are interested in the continuing fallout from Apple’s decision to resist government requests for technical assistance in overcoming p... -
Estonian Digital Residency Update IV: The President Weighs in on "Going Dark"
The FBI v. Apple flap exploded on the public scene just as I was learning my way around my new Estonian e-Residency card, which promises—among other things—secure communications between card holders. I a... -
Apple Wins a Round
Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York has ruled that the government's request for assistance from Apple to extract data from a phone operating iOS 7—an older operating syst... -
Jihadology Podcast: Nashids: History and Cultural Meaning
Behnam Said comes on the show to talk about nasheeds. Some of the topics covered include: -
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Grading the Obama Administration's Progress on Drone Policy
In his May 2013 speech at National Defense University, President Obama called for new ways to think about drones and the United States’ policy on using these systems in counterterrorism operations. Now, ... -
Demystifying Apple’s FAQ – A Rebuttal
To say that Apple has great marketing would be quite an understatement. Apple is widely recognized as having one of the most effective marketing and PR operations in their—or perhaps any—industry. Storie... -
Congress Is Responsible for the Iranian Exemptions to the New Visa Waiver Law
Last Thursday’s hearing by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs made clear that the Republicans in Congress are still steaming about the Obama administration’s narrowing of Congress’s recent restrictio... -
Here Be Dragons
PDF version A Review of Adam Segal's The Hacked World Order (PublicAffairs, 2016). -
On Setting Precedents in the Apple-FBI Dispute
In a recent February 25 hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI Director Comey said two things. At 36:45 in the CSPAN video, he says that
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