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Defining Legal/Policy Deviancy Down? An Alternative View of the PPG
I agree wholeheartedly with Ben Wittes and Marty Lederman that there are very few new revelations in the just-declassified Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) on direct action against terrorist targets, a... -
Apple at BlackHat: Reopening the "Going Dark" Debate
Just over a week ago, at the BlackHat hacker convention in Las Vegas, Ivan Krstić, Head of Security Engineering and Architecture at Apple gave a talk entitled “Behind the scenes of iOS Security,” the sli... -
Pokémon and a Better Conversation on Data Privacy
Amid an onslaught of privacy and cybersecurity threats, it can be difficult to predict which potential concerns will capture the public imagination. A particularly unlikely candidate for public debate ov... -
Encryption and the "Golden Key"
The encryption debate seems to have died down for now. But events have a way of intruding. As the Hill reports: "Researchers who uncovered a security key that protects Windows devices as they boot up s... -
Project Sauron
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Presidential Accountability for Capture and Kill Operations Under the PPG
I have now read through the newly-declassified PPG on direct actions, the so-called "Playbook" for drone strikes from May 2013. -
CYBERCOM Grows Up, Chinese IP Theft, and Apple's Bug Bounty
A few days at the beach see a number of interesting (and as yet unremarked in Lawfare) cyber items: -
Declassified "Procedures for Approving Direct Action" Against Terrorists
This document was released yesterday. I haven't read it yet, but it is entitled "Procedures for Approving Direct Action Against Terrorist Targets Located Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hos... -
The Justice Department Responds to Sen. Boxer on Sextortion—Sort Of
Shortly after we released our sextortion reports back in May, Sen. Barbara Boxer wrote a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch seeking data on the scope and magnitude of the problem: "court records sh... -
On the Need for Official Attribution of Russia’s DNC Hack
Yesterday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff—Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively—ca... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Steve Budiansky on ‘Code Warriors’
Steve Budiansky is the author of Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union. He joined Ben at the Hoover Book Soiree recently for a live conversation about... -
2nd Circuit Rules Against US Government in Microsoft Case
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today in the case Microsoft v. United States, finding that Stored Communications Act "does not authorize courts to issue and enforce against U.S.-based service p...
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