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Totalitarianism 101: The Islamic State’s Offline Propaganda Strategy
Editor's Note: The Islamic State produces potent propaganda, inspiring tens of thousands of Muslims to travel to Syria to fight and encouraging other Muslims to launch attacks in their home countries. Th... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Amy Zegart and Stephen Krasner on ‘Pragmatic Engagement Amidst Global Uncertainty’
This week on the podcast, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes interviews Amy Zegart and Stephen Krasner, both of the Hoover Institution, about their recently released national security strategy called Pragmatic En... -
The Apple Vulnerability Disclosure Question -- A Testable Proposition
As Ben has reported, Apple has said publicly that it expects the FBI to disclose to it any vulnerability that a third party outsider might discover. Ben characterizes this as "digital chutzpah" in light... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Robert Chesney and Steve Vladeck examined if there was a coherent middle ground in the Apple vs. FBI All Writs Act dispute. Cody Poplin flagged DOJ’s motion to postpone its hearing on the San Bernardino... -
Are the U.S. Indictments for Iran Cyberattacks Hypocrital?
At Time I have a piece examining the DOJ indictments of the Iranians allegedly involved in the DDOS cyberattacks on financial services in New York. The Iranians appear to have been indicted for retali... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced today that a senior Islamic State operative was killed during a special operations raid in Syria. -
Anthony Rutkowski: International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
Lawfare is pleased to announced the publication of a new paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History by Tony Rutkowski. From the abstract: -
A Response to Susan's Post
Ben Wittes and Susan Hennessey deserve many responses to their ongoing arguments about Apple and the court case. It's very much on my to-do list, but I have been busy. I will confine myself here to corre... -
Water Wars: In the South China Sea, Beijing Faces Twin Threats of New U.S. Military Presence and Pushback from an Old Friend
China suffered two major setbacks in the South China Sea this week. First, sparks flew between the PRC and Indonesia when the bungled seizure of a Chinese fishing vessel in Indonesian waters almost led t... -
Is the Nine Dash Line a Super-Sized Exclusive Economic Zone?
China opened up a new front for South China Sea conflict this week when one of its coast guard vessels collided with an Indonesian coast guard ship in the process of towing a captured Chinese vessel alle... -
NSA Isn’t the Going Dark Solution, Part III: “Beat Me If You Can”
In the first two parts of this series, I noted the general tendencies of the FBI’s critics to assume away the problems posed by Going Dark by insisting that the NSA—or the intelligence community more bro... -
NSA Isn’t the Going Dark Solution, Part II: There’s No Such Thing As Magic
In Part I of this series, I noted the tendency of commentators—without any actual knowledge—to assert that NSA could simply break into a given locked iPhone.
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