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Today's Headlines and Commentary
French President François Hollande has called for the United States, Russia, and France to form a global coalition to fight against ISIS. -
Rand Paul and Refugees
Senator Rand Paul has offered this amendment in the Senate today. It speaks for itself. -
ISIS and the DMCA -- A Thought Experiment
As Bobby has reported, one of the fascinating outgrowths of the Paris attacks is the declaration of war on ISIS that came the other day from Anonymous. Bobby mused on the intelligence value of identifyi... -
Rational Security: The "Anybody Got Any Bright Ideas?" Edition
What do the ISIS attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, and now France tell us about the group’s evolution and whether it’s changing strategy? Are they a sign of growing ambition or a sign of pressure as US ... -
The Senate Should Act Now to Confirm Brian Egan as State Department Legal Adviser
Senate Democrats have called for the rapid confirmation of several stalled Presidential nominees to important national security positions in light of the Paris attacks and the potential terrorist threat ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The suspected architect behind Friday’s attacks in Paris was reportedly killed in a raid involving over 100 security personnel and lasting more than seven hours. -
The Limits of The Panopticon
The modern world is a virtual panopticon, a surveillance state which records huge quantities of data about our every action and provides an easily retrievable metadata record of our movements, our contac... -
Anonymous vs ISIS Online: Pondering the Intelligence Impact of Social Media Takedowns
In a video posted to Youtube a few days ago, the hacker collective Anonymous proclaimed it would go after ISIS in response to the Paris attacks, in a campaign labeled #OpParis (there's an official twitte... -
Russia and ISIS and International Law
Russia now says that it believes that ISIS was behind the crash of a commercial Russian aircraft, Metrojet 9268, over the Sinai desert on October 31 which killed the 224 people on board. Like the Paris ... -
The Significance of Attorney General Lynch’s Testimony on Closing GTMO
Josh Gerstein has a nice summary of Attorney General Lynch’s testimony yesterday concerning the closure of GTMO (minutes 44-48 or so here). A key passage: -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #89: An Interview with Mark Shuttleworth
Our guest for the podcast is Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte and Canonical/Ubuntu. -
In Defense of Refugees
The unseemly spectacle of governors and presidential candidates—leaders and would-be leaders of states and the nation at large—tripping over one another to confuse the victims of ISIS with ISIS itself an...
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