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Apparently The Word "Foolish" Is Spelled "SWIFT"
It is difficult to shock people these days. Especially in the cybersecurity realm we have seen so many different foolish ways of being vulnerable that one becomes inured to it. As Kevin Mittnick is rep... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in a U.S. air strike over the weekend, throwing the Taliban into the second leadership shake-up in less than a year. Robert Chesney questio... -
A Response to Jack’s Critique of JASTA
I’d like to add a counterpoint to Jack’s recent assessment that Congress, by passing JASTA, would be shirking its duty by not more directly resolving the claims that the victims of the 9/11 attacks press... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Barack Obama used his historic Hiroshima visit today to reiterate his call for a nuclear free world. Obama is the first American president to visit the city where the U.S. dropped the first ato... -
ACLU Seeks to Join Microsoft in ECPA Challenge
Yesterday, the ACLU filed a motion to join Microsoft’s ongoing challenge to the constitutionality of § 2705(b) of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which permits the government to obtain ... -
Enhancing National Cybersecurity Requires Surrendering the Crypto War
On Monday, Paul Rosenzweig suggested a number of areas in which the recently formed Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity should focus in charting the US government’s path forward. While I agree... -
Indicting Hackers and Known Vulnerabilities
In March, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against seven Iranians for hacking the U.S. financial sector and a dam in New York. Debate ensued between supporters and skeptics of using indictme... -
Rational Security: The "At Least You're Not Mullah Mansour" Edition
President Obama makes one last pivot to Asia in an official visit to Vietnam and Japan. The United States kills the Taliban’s leader. And a State Department inspector general report scolds Hillary Clinto... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The war against the Islamic State continues along both ends of the Euphrates, targeting two of the pseudo-caliphate’s strongholds. In the north, Kurdish-led forces have launched an assault against Islami... -
Important First Step by HPSCI on Pre-Publication Review Reform
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Not Quite Making it to Syria: A Tale of Two Failed ISIS Recruits
This week, the federal district courts in both the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of Texas confronted ISIS’s ability to recruit Americans to travel overseas to join and fight for... -
Trump and the Powers of the American Presidency (Part I)
John Adams's famous aspiration is not our reality: We live in a government of men, as well as laws. One of those men, the most powerful of them all, may soon be Donald Trump. So as the late Joan Rive...
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