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Judge Pierre Leval Defends the Alien Tort Statute
This is old news by now, but Judge Pierre Leval of the Second Circuit has a thoughtful article in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs (behind a paywall, unfortunately) entitled "The Long Arm of Int... -
The =Real= Internet Kill Switch
Last year, as Congress debated cybersecurity, some worried about an "internet kill switch" -- that is, the authority for the President to order access to the internet cut off. As the debate resumes this... -
The Market for Zero Day Exploits
The Economist has an excellent short article on the growing market for zero-day exploits (that is, vulnerabilities in software). As my friend Chris Soghoian observed there is more information here than ... -
Greg McNeal Talks Drone Courts on NPR
From Weekend Edition, a very thoughtful and useful discussion with Greg McNeal on some of themes of his recent guest blogging on Lawfare: -
Memo to the Press: Just Shut Up About Jonathan Fredman
The quotation is apparently too sexy to resist---too sexy even to Google its speaker's name before running with it. A single Google search would, after all, yield this article by Stuart Taylor Jr. in Nat... -
The Return of Practical Obscurity?
The European Union has begun consideration of a new Data Protection Directive that is intended to protect personal information from uwarranted disclosure by corporations or governments. Among the more c... -
Your Weekend Just Got Better
Courtesy of The Onion, America's Finest News Source: Ayman Al-Zawahiri Delivers TEDTalk On Changing Face Of Terrorism ATLANTA—Addressing attendees gathered for this week’s TEDxEvolution Conference, al-Q... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Nicole Perlroth and David Sanger have this New York Times report on recent cyberattacks against the private sector. The strikes main aim is not to disrupt companies' activities or collect their trade se... -
Exhibits in the Al Madhwani Emergency Motion
Here are a bunch, which I should have included in my post this morning on Musa'ab Al Madhwani's emergency motion on clothing, temperature, and potable water: Declaration of Stephen N. -
Victor Davis Hanson on Obama's "Game of Drones"
Over at the Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas site, Victor Davis Hanson has this useful essay on the politics of drones. -
Al Madhwani Emergency Motion on Water and Clothes
An emergency motion filed before U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan the other day alleges that guards at Guantanamo are denying a hunger-striking detainee access to potable water and are cranking up the ai... -
STOCK Act: NAPA Recommends Congress "Indefinitely Suspend" Requirement for Internet Posting of Financial Disclosure Forms
Today, a National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) task force released a report mandated by Congress on the risks posed by Section 11 of the STOCK Act, which would require Internet publication of ...
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