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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. -
What the Brussels Attacks Tell Us About the State of ISIS and Europe Today
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Some security officials are indicating that the Islamic State has trained at least 400 fighters to attack Europe in “deadly waves of attacks.” The Associated Press tells us that the terrorist group, resp... -
NSA Isn’t the Going Dark Solution, Part I: Richard Clarke Gets It Wrong
Let’s start with a point that will be significant emotional satisfaction to many readers: Richard Clarke was dead wrong. In a remarkable statement last week, the former Clinton and early Bush adminis... -
The Israeli Supreme Court Debates Counterterrorism Home Demolitions
An interesting debate has developed recently among the justices of the Israeli Supreme Court over the legality of Israel’s use of home demolitions as a counterterrorism measure. This longstanding practic... -
Hot Commodities: Dropping Bombs, in Oil Market Terms
The Saudi decision to flood the oil market—otherwise known as the oil price rollercoaster we are currently riding—is what Andrew Scott Cooper calls the “oil trade’s equivalent of dropping a bomb on a riv... -
The Very Definition of Digital Age Chutzpah
Bloomberg Business is reporting that now that the FBI may have a way into the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, Apple wants it to disclose what it’s doing. “Apple lawyers on Monday said that if the case pr... -
Rational Security: The "I Don’t Want People to Go Around Thinking I Have a Problem" Edition
Terrorists attack Brussels in a series of bombings. The FBI tells Apple, “Just kidding! -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Adam Segal
What kind of internet world order does China want, and will it succeed? That’s the question we ask Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relation and author of The Hack...
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