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What The Intercept Found in “The Drone Papers”—And What I Found In Them
The Intercept yesterday released its latest scoop: a cache of leaked documents on the U.S. drone program, presented as a series of blockbuster stories. -
Rational Security: The "Fond Fair Wells" Edition
Tamara is in China, probably getting hacked by People's Liberation Army, so Quinta Jurecic joins Shane and me for the podcast this week. We talk about a new leak to the Intercept on drones that Shane rea... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Turkish fighter jets have shot down a drone flying in Turkish airspace near the Syrian border, the New York Times reports. -
German Bundestag Passes New Data Retention Law
In December 2014, German Minister of Justice Heiko Maas issued a strongly worded tweet, complete with exclamation mark, stating that data retention laws violate the right to privacy and data protection, ... -
Water Wars: U.S.-China War of Words Continues but Still No Action
Littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth patrols near the Spratlys (Photo: MC2 Conor Minto/U.S. Navy) -
Manual Procedures As Protection Against Cyber Threats
A story in the 10/14/2015 Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/10/14/cybersecurity-fears-are-making-u-s-sailors-learn-to-navigate-by-the-stars-again/) indicates that th... -
Drones, Their Critics, and Obama's War Powers Legacy
Few things have been more emblematic of the military and, indeed, political aspects of the Obama War Powers legacy than drones. As many have noted, the use of this weapons system has vastly increased du... -
From Hollywood with Love: The Case of Colonel Abel
Who doesn’t love a Russian spy? Boris Badenov loved Natasha Fatale. James Bond loved KGB Maj. Anya Amasova. Joe Biden felt a certain something for Anna Chapman, the “deep-cover” Russian spy rounded up... -
A Response to the “Drone Papers”: AUMF Targeting is a Deliberate Process with Robust Political Accountability
The Intercept’s “Drone Papers” leaker “believes the public has a right to know how the U.S. government decides to assassinate people.” Maybe so—or maybe public safety and the need for secrecy trump the p... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
America’s longest war just got a little bit longer (as seems to happen every 12 to 18 months). -
The ICC Prosecutor Takes on the Russia-Georgia Conflict
Earlier this week, the the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, sought to open an investigation of possible crimes in Georgia. Her focus is the August 2008 fighting that took p... -
The NSA and Weak-DH
The authors of the weak Diffie-Hellman work are almost certainly correct that the technique they describe is used by the NSA, in bulk, to perform a massive amount of decryption on Internet traffic. This...
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