Providing physical security to its citizens is undoubtedly the core function of the state. As readers of Lawfare well know, it is hard work to figure out how that security function should be reconciled w...

Fadi Chehade, the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has announced his intention to step down, effective March 2016.  The United States is in the midst of a transitio...

Here’s something a little outside the normal Lawfare fare but which Lawfare readers might find interesting: A new paper we have written about all the privacy benefits we receive from technologies we typi...

Logjam is a new attack against the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol used in TLS. Basically: The Logjam attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade vulnerable TLS connections to 512-bit ex...

I haven't watched this yet, but it took place yesterday at Georgetown Law's Cybersecurity Law Institute. Ben Powell, former general counsel to the DNI, interviews Jim Comey:

The University of Adelaide has a free new MOOC called Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security that is taught by Melissa de Zwart, Dale Stephens, and Rebecca LaForgia.   The web page and registration can be f...

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's Rachel Brand penned an opinion piece in today's Christian Science Monitor.  It opens: The heated debate in Congress about whether to reauthorize Section ...

Dustin Volz of the National Journal has obtained a memo from the Department of Justice circulated among congressional offices today that says the NSA will need to begin taking steps to wind down the bul...

Julian Hattem has a good piece in the Hill on the current state of play in the Senate with respect to expiration of the Patriot Act provisions in less than two weeks: Sen.