Wassenaar, Cybersecurity, and Why European Officials Get Better Lunches than Americans

Stewart Baker
Sunday, November 5, 2017, 1:00 AM

Alan Cohn and I did a one-hour explanation of the fuss over the Wassenaar Arrangement, intrusion software, and cybersecurity on Friday. Because we did it for the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project, we tried to link this international regulatory initiative to broader lessons about regulating technology in today’s world. One of the lesser lessons: European officials will always be invited to better lunches than their American counterparts.

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Alan Cohn and I did a one-hour explanation of the fuss over the Wassenaar Arrangement, intrusion software, and cybersecurity on Friday. Because we did it for the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project, we tried to link this international regulatory initiative to broader lessons about regulating technology in today’s world. One of the lesser lessons: European officials will always be invited to better lunches than their American counterparts.

If you’d like to listen, here’s the link:

Listen to "Discussion on the Wassenaar Arrangement" on Spreaker.

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Stewart A. Baker has a law and consulting practice in Washington. His government service include three and a half years at the Department of Homeland Security as its first Assistant Secretary for Policy as well as a tours of duty as General Counsel of the National Security Agency and as General Counsel of the commission that investigated US intelligence failures in the runup to the invasioin of Iraq.
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