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The Rational Security gang starts the year with our 50th episode. Kim Jong-un says North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb. The Russians may have caused a blackout in Ukraine with a cyber attack. And Presiden...
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Editor's Note: Welcome back to Water Wars! Following our holiday hiatus, this first edition of the new year will look back at the major events in the Asian Pacific since our last post in late November. N...
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As many Lawfare readers know, several years ago Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Sandy Clark, and I presented the idea of using vulnerabilities already present in devices as a way to facilitate court-authoriz...
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The Pentagon has transferred two long-cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees, Khalid al Dhuby and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef, to the West African nation of Ghana, marking the first time that the United States has t...
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Over the holidays the UN General Assembly formally adopted this year’s resolution on information security. The text, which mandates the creation of a new Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) for 2016-2017...
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The UK Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has released written evidence submissions on the legislation. A number of US companies—including Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft—and policy gr...
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has published a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, in which he offers the clearest and most detailed explanation the Department of Defense has...
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Late last year, a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court gave the green light to the National Security Agency to start using a new tool to help the government protect against international ...
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After detection devices around the world picked up a 5.1 seismic event along North Korea’s northeast coast late Tuesday night, North Korea declared that it had tested its first ever hydrogen bomb.
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We’re back from hiatus with a boatload of news and a cautiously libertarian technologist guest in Nick Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
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I’ve been thinking about lawful device hacking of late—that is, government hacking of devices as a way around the “going dark” problem. Many civil libertarians and cryptographers seem actively to prefer ...
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According to a Washington Post editorial, headlined “A Danger to Israeli Democracy” proposed legislation “that would stigmatize nongovernmental organizations that receive funding from overseas” reflects ...
