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"Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat," by Jeffrey D. Simon
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Readings: Henry Farrell on Critics of Snowden and Greenwald
Some time back, Ben noted two stern critiques of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald---one by Sean Wilentz and another by George Packer. The latter reviewed Greenwald's book, No Place to Hide; ditto Micha... -
Axiom -- A Chinese APT
And just to prove that we are equal-opportunity victims, I also saw, today, this report from Novetta on "Operation SMN" -- a report on a Chinese APT dubbed Axiom. Here's a bit of the Executive Summary: ... -
Russian APT28
We tend to focus our attention on Chinese APT cyber threats for good reason -- they tend to be more overt and focus on American business interests. But we should not lose sight of the fact that Russian ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A new set of monitoring guidelines for people arriving to the United States from West Africa has been put in place by the federal government. The New York Times reports on new measures that are supposed ... -
A Follow Up on the Postal Service Metadata Program
This morning, I posted some thoughts on a story in the New York Times about so-called "mail covers" by the Postal Service and their relationship -
Will Anyone Care About the Postal Service's Metadata Program
I'm very interested to watch how the political system responds to this New York Times story about the U.S. Postal's Service very old, sort-of-bulk metadata program. The Times reports: In a rare public ac... -
Bits and Bytes
Two cyber related items today: The FCC is now in the cybersecurity business. It's $10M fine is the first of its kind to be levied against a telecom that, allegedly, stored personal information with ina... -
Feds Identify Suspected "Second Leaker"
That's the headline from Michael Iskikoff at Yahoo! News reporting that the FBI has identified the suspected so-called "second leaker." The story begins: The FBI has identified an employee of a federal ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
While the US midterm elections are still a week away, democratic contests elsewhere in the world are ongoing or have just concluded. In Brazil, the BBC reports that incumbent president Dilma Rousseff nar... -
Susan Rice Did Not Consult DOD When She Urged Repeal of 2002 AUMF That DOD (Correctly) Thought Was "Still Needed"
Michael Hirsh has a piece at Politico on the disorganized, uncoordinated crafting and implementation of the administration’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State. Of particular interest to Lawfare reade... -
A Bit More On the Debate About the Extraterritorial Scope of the Torture Convention’s Provisions on Cruelty
In his piece on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates pressuring the President to disclose information about torture, Charlie Savage explains why some officials in the administration oppose the broad extraterritor...
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