Two New Pieces on Surveillance by Susan Landau (and Friends)
Susan Landau is the author of Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, a careful, clear, and informed book about how government mechanisms for surveillance (legal and otherwise) weaken cybersecurity. (Surveillance or Security is apparently out soon in paperback.) Susan (and co-authors) have two new short essays on similar themes. One is
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Susan Landau is the author of Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, a careful, clear, and informed book about how government mechanisms for surveillance (legal and otherwise) weaken cybersecurity. (Surveillance or Security is apparently out soon in paperback.) Susan (and co-authors) have two new short essays on similar themes. One is Going Bright: Wiretapping without Weakening Communications Infrastructure (with Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, and Sandy Clark). The other (with Matt Blaze) is The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors.
Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.
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