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A Bad News Roundup -- We Can't Do Cybersecurity. Period.
Pentagon Delays Cybersecurity Requirements. "The Pentagon has delayed for almost two years a requirement that as many as 10,000 companies show that they have systems to protect sensitive but unclassified... -
Snowbound: A Lawfare Link Round-up
It’s been a busy January. Fortunately, the weather gods have blessed our readers on the Eastern seaboard with a bunch of snow and nothing to do but catch up on Lawfare. If you’re snowed in, here’s a hand... -
If It’s Broke, Don’t Make it Worse: A Critique of the U.N. Secretary-General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism
Preventing violent extremism — who could be against that? Especially when it is held up as the antidote to fourteen years of disease purportedly rooted in counterterrorism: war, targeted killing, torture... -
A First Step in Facilitating Searches for Bad Guys with Minimal Harm to the Privacy of the Good Guys
In a recent article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled "Private algorithms for the protected in social network search", Kearns et al describe algorithms for searching social netw... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Al Shabaab militants murdered approximately 20 people at a popular beach restaurant in Mogadishu last night, Reuters and Agence France-Presse report. The five militants set off bombs and stormed the rest... -
The Case Against the Case Against General Petraeus
Multiple media outlets this week report that -
Jihadology Podcast: Islamic State Networks In Turkey
Aaron Stein comes on the show to talk about IS networks in Turkey. Some of the topics covered include: -
Why Does the U.S. Demand Innocent Passage in the South China Sea, But Not in the Persian Gulf?
The brief Iranian detention and safe return last week of 10 U.S. sailors – and their equipment – would seem to have little in common with ongoing U.S. plans for Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) ... -
Water Wars: Taiwanese Election Serves as Rebuke to PRC
Taiwanese President-Elect Tsai Ing-wen during final campaign rally in Taipei (Photo: Reuters) -
Did Congress Immunize Twitter Against Lawsuits for Supporting ISIS?
Back in July, we wrote a lengthy piece about whether Apple could conceivably face civil liability for providing end-to-end encryption to criminals and terrorists. -
A Meeting of the Minds: A Formula for Closing Guantanamo
Steve Vladeck and I have a piece in the Washington Post today offering a formula to break the executive-legislative stalemate on Guantanamo—one predicated on the idea of designating a permanent site in t... -
Congress’s New Tactic to Keep Refugees Out and Guantanamo Open
On Wednesday, the Senate blocked the American SAFE Act, a bill designed to raise the security hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to enter the US. Coming on the heels of the Paris attacks, the b...
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