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New Tech and National Security Law -- Tile
Who needs the NSA? Now you can buy Tile for just $20 and track anything you want. Tile is a small white square that you can affix to almost anything. It's only a few millimeters thick -- thin enough t... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #12: An Interview with Jim Lewis
This week’s cyberlaw podcast begins as always with the week in NSA. We suspect that a second tech exec meeting with the President (for two hours!) bodes ill for the intelligence community, or at least th... -
A Reply to Ryan Goodman
Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs. -
White House Will Back Legislation Ending NSA's Bulk Collection of Phone Metadata
That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the... -
Uganda and the WPR Clock
Should the War Powers Resolution "clock" be running in Uganda? -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Winston Churchill famously declared, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Almost 80 years later, that's President Putin in a nutshell: th... -
Defining Success for the ICANN Transition
Last week, the Administration announced its plan to devolve governance of the Internet’s naming function (which goes by the acronym IANA) to a non-profit organization, the Internet Corporation for Assign... -
The Week That Will Be
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"Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare," by Juan Zarate
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The Foreign Policy Essay: The State of the International Order
Editor’s Note: The United States has long favored a robust international order—but defining the salient characteristics of the international order and evaluating its structure and stability can be diffic... -
A Very Brief Reply to Glenn Greenwald
Over at his new publication, The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald has a piece taking to task those criticizing Edward Snowden for news stories that, in fact, reflect the editorial judgments of the newspapers t... -
The NYT on NSA's Huawei Penetration [UPDATED]
David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report about how the NSA has successfully placed backdoors into the networks of the Chinese Telecommunications giant Huawei for purposes of (a) discerning Huawei's links ...
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