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Drone Registration Plan from US Department of Transportation
According to NBC News (October 16, 2015), the U.S. Department of Transportation is about to announce a plan to require every purchaser of a drone to register it with the U.S. government. The plan is app... -
What The Intercept Found in “The Drone Papers”—And What I Found In Them
The Intercept yesterday released its latest scoop: a cache of leaked documents on the U.S. drone program, presented as a series of blockbuster stories. -
Drones, Their Critics, and Obama's War Powers Legacy
Few things have been more emblematic of the military and, indeed, political aspects of the Obama War Powers legacy than drones. As many have noted, the use of this weapons system has vastly increased du... -
A Response to the “Drone Papers”: AUMF Targeting is a Deliberate Process with Robust Political Accountability
The Intercept’s “Drone Papers” leaker “believes the public has a right to know how the U.S. government decides to assassinate people.” Maybe so—or maybe public safety and the need for secrecy trump the p... -
The NSA and Weak-DH
The authors of the weak Diffie-Hellman work are almost certainly correct that the technique they describe is used by the NSA, in bulk, to perform a massive amount of decryption on Internet traffic. This... -
Can NSA Crack Public Key Encryption?
Much ink has been expended over the past few months over the Administration's floated idea of requiring encryption back doors in new technology implementions -- an idea that, for now, the Administration ... -
On U.S. Drone Bases in Africa
Yesterday afternoon, President Obama sent a letter to Congress alerting members that 300 U.S. -
Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking Back at Cliff Stoll's Classic The Cuckoo's Egg
It has been almost exactly twenty-six years since the publication of Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. I'm not sure this was the first non-fiction cyb... -
The Other Big Encryption News Last Week
President Obama’s waving the encryption white flag to Apple wasn’t the only big “going dark” news this week—and it’s not the only bad news for law enforcement. The courts continue to struggle with encryp... -
The Rhetoric of the Encryption Debate
In a Washington Post story on October 7 (that I just saw), Andrea Peterson writes about the inability of government authorities and privacy advocates to agree on the meaning of “strong encryption.” -
The Administration Decision on Encryption Policy
The New York Times reported on October 11, 2015 that The Obama administration has backed down in its bitter dispute with Silicon Valley over the encryption of data on iPhones and other digital devices,... -
Surveillance Reform Is Only Hope for Reviving Safe Harbor
In my last post, I said that the European Court of Justice decision in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commission ignores some inconvenient truths. US frustrations with European double standards o...
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