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Rational Security: The "Slippery Slope" Edition
It's a fun week on Rational Security. Shane and I both try our hands at singing. Tamara wisely refrains. Meanwhile, President Obama is sending 200 more special operations forces to Iraq to combat ISIS. ... -
British Parliament (Unlike the U.S. Congress) Actually Votes on Use of Force in Syria
Following 10 hours of debate, the British Parliament voted late Wednesday evening to participate in the bombing campaign in Syria against the Islamic State. -
Hot Commodities: A Tale of Two Extremes
This year droughts crippled California and heat waves claimed the lives of hundreds in India and Pakistan. Major flooding caught Texas by surprise and Yemen was hit, not once but twice, by deadly cyclone... -
A Biometric Approach as a Partial Step Forward in the Encryption Debate
The contours of the present encryption debate are well known. Especially in the wake of the Paris shootings, law enforcement and national security (LE/NS) officials are worried that terrorist use of enc... -
China Claims OPM Hack was "Criminal"; Arrests Hackers It Says were Responsible
Buried in this morning's article covering the ongoing U.S.-China cybersecurity talks, Chinese state-owned media outlet Xinhua News said that an investigation had determined that the hack of the Office of... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Pentagon intends to deploy “a targeting force of elite U.S. special operations troops into northern Iraq” in order to gather intelligence and target ISIS leaders, the Daily Beast reports. -
Updating ECPA -- The Email Privacy Act
The House Judiciary Committee had a hearing yesterday on HR 699, the Email Privacy Act. The bill, which has more than 300 co-sponsors in the House (!) would update the Stored Communications Act to app... -
Al Bahlul En Banc Oral Argument
Audio of the D.C. Circuit's en banc oral argument in Al Bahlul is available here. I haven't listened to it yet. I'll offer thoughts after I do. -
Trucker’s Hitch: Targeting ISIL Oil Transport Trucks and the Need for Advanced Warnings
In this comment, I would like to offer some thoughts in response to Butch Bracknell’s recent post on the targeting of ISIL oil transport trucks by the US in eastern Syria. -
UK's Parliament Debates What the UN Security Council Said
The UK Parliament is in the midst of a tumultuous debate over whether British forces should participate in airstrikes on Syrian territory. Thus far, the debate has featured frequent calls for Prime Minis... -
Reminder: Today's Hoover Book Soiree, Edward Lucas on "Cyberphobia"
The third in our series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take this evening at 5:00 pm, when I interview Edward Lucas of the Economist about his new book, Cyberphobia... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #91: An Interview with Jason Healey
Is the internet really worth it? Our guest for episode 91, Jason Healey of the Atlantic Council and Columbia University, recaps a study finding that, even with a worst-case Clockwork Orange Internet, th...
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