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Vulnerabilities Equities Reform That Makes Everyone (And No One) Happy
National Security Council veterans Ari Schwartz and Rob Knake recently released a paper entitled Government’s Role in Vulnerability Disclosure. The paper, published by Harvard’s Belfer Center, catalogues... -
DNC Hack; the Dark Web; AI; and China
While everyone is talking about Hillary and her emails, I thought I'd share a couple of items: The Dark Web: We finally have a good map of the Dark Web. Turns out it is surprisingly inter-connected, a... -
The Lawfare Podcast: John Carlin Uses All the Tools
John Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security, has a new law review article out in the Harvard National Security Journal, entitled: "Detect, Disrupt, Deter: A Whole-of-Government Approach... -
President Obama's Executive Order on Pre/Post Airstrike Policies and Practices
Hot off the press: The new Executive Order concerning pre-strike and post-strike practices and policies is here, ODNI's release of aggregate casaulty information is here, and the official fact sheet conc... -
Indian Court Rejects Encryption Challenge...For Now
The Indian Supreme Court has dismissed a public interest litigation petition (PIL) by Sudhir Yadav, a Right-To-Information activist and web developer who called for a ban on messaging apps that offer end... -
The US Really Does Want to Constrain Commercial Espionage: Why Does Nobody Believe It?
At a recent speech I gave, I was annoyed to hear representatives of a European energy company express the concern that the National Security Agency is spying on them and giving information to American oi... -
The Great 21st Century Data Rush
Global conversations are often skewed in favor of the countries that generate data or possess the technological capability to access it. The encryption debate in countries with advanced technical capacit... -
The Path Forward on Encryption: The McCaul-Warner Commission
The current encryption debate is gridlocked. For the past year, privacy advocates, civil libertarians, Department of Justice attorneys, cryptographers, and others have been stonewalling one another, exch... -
Facilitation and Security in the Age of Air Travel
This summer has been dominated by headlines about long lines at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at the nation’s airports. Surely, countless meetings are currently being held at D... -
Brennan's Recent Testimony on Encryption
In a recent post, Bruce Schneier says that “CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist”, and suggests that Brennan is either lying or ignorant. Bruce cites, in full, the relev... -
John Carlin on "Detect, Disrupt, Deter: A Whole-of-Government Approach to National Security Cyber Threats"
Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, who runs the Justice Department's National Security Division, has a new paper out in the Harvard National Security Journal entitled "Detect, Disrupt, Deter: A Whol... -
U.S. Attribution of China’s Cyber-Theft Aids Xi’s Centralization and Anti-Corruption Efforts
Since I have been a skeptic of the US-China agreement last fall on state-sponsored commercial cyber theft to benefit local firms (most recently here), I should acknowledge the new report by Fireye that c...
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