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NSA Knew About and Exploited Heartbleed---Unless it Didn't
The other day, walking out of Aikido class, I was chatting with a friend about Heartbleed. I joked that the latest revelation reminded me of a scene from the classic Martin Scorsese movie, After Hours. I... -
Cyber Threat Information and the Antitrust Canard
Those of us who tried to do big things in government have learned to be grateful for small things. Yesterday, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission jointly declare... -
Foreign Purchases of U.S. Businesses, Presidential Power, and National Security: Ralls Corp. v. CFIUS
When then-Representative Barney Frank contemplated the ability of foreign interests to acquire American companies at the expense of national security, he made the following statement: There is no right t... -
House Judiciary Hearing on ICANN
I testified yesterday at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed transfer of the IANA function to ICANN. You can find my testimony (and that of the other witnesses) at the committee web si... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In the wake of 9/11, the FBI dramatically shifted its focus from a fighting domestic crime to preventing terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. -
FBI Agents Embedding with JSOC Units in Combat Zones
The Washington Post has a story this evening on an often-overlooked aspect of interagency cooperation in connection with both combat operations and counterterrorism: FBI agents deploying into the field ... -
On The Recent FISC Preservation Rulings
When last we checked in on the metadata preservation saga, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had authorized the government---in contravention of its prior order---to retain metadata beyond the ... -
On the Data Retention Directive Case
In another round of “privacy versus security” in the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on April 8, 2014 struck down the European Union’s Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The New York Times gives us a sneak peak at Attorney General Eric Holder’s much awaited revisions to the Justice Department’s profiling rules. -
The National Security Agency at the Crossroads: Audio of Sessions
The following is audio of the conference last week in Austin hosted by the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint venture of the Strauss Center and Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin. -
About (A Lot More Than) Metadata
The recent announcements by the President and the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee marked the beginning of the end of more than a decade of bulk metadata collection by the government under evo... -
Yale Symposium: Unpacking NSA's Global Problem
On Sunday, the Yale Information Society Project held an excellent symposium on the international policy implications of “Big Data.” I took part in the event (see livestream here), which touched on many t...
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