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Marshall Erwin on the FBI's "Going Slowly"
Over at Just Security, Marshall Erwin has an excellent article entitled, "The FBI’s Problem Isn’t 'Going Dark.' Its Problem is Going Slowly." I'm not sure how much of Erwin's argument I agree with—defini... -
Drone Firing Handgun
A few months ago, I wrote a post about a drone that can fire a paintball gun with great accuracy. I concluded, "If this is what's doable by hobbyists today, think about what will be possible five, ten, o... -
Thoughts on Encryption and Going Dark: Counterpart
In his thoughtful piece on arguments regarding the broad use of encryption to secure communications and devices, not surprisingly Ben puts forth some ideas with which I disagree. Hence, to his part II, I... -
Conor Friedersdorf Takes the Bait on Encryption
Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf responds to my piece on encryption, defending on principled grounds the use of strong end-to-end encryption. In my view, he gets the entire matter wrong: wrong on... -
Thoughts on Encryption and Going Dark, Part II: The Debate on the Merits
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Senate Hearings on "Going Dark"
Both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold hearings today on strong encrpytion, privacy, and the threat of "Going Dark." The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing ... -
Testing Encryption Insecurity: A Modest Proposal
Co-blogger Susan Landau has yet another thoughtful post on the insecurity of back door encryption requirements -- what she calls mandating insecurity. She calls it magical thinking, which is perhaps a ... -
A Correction and a Reiteration
Last week, I wrote a piece on the OPM hack, quoting a GAO report that seemed to me to suggest that the intelligence community had concerns about OPM's computer security back in 2010. In response, I recei... -
Encryption, Biometrics, and the Status Quo Ante
As the recent indirect debate between FBI Director James Comey and co-blogger Susan Landau makes clear, the underlying premises of the encryption issue are highly contested. The Senate will continue the... -
Pentagon Releases New National Military Strategy
Yesterday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey unveiled the the Pentagon's new 2015 National Military Strategy. Revising the 2011 National Military Strategy, General Dempsey indi... -
Announcing the Lawfare Drone Smackdown, Part Deux
One of Lawfare's current interns, Staley Smith, discovered a few days ago this site's illustrious history of practical robotics—that is to say organizing stunts that involve playing with robots as a way ... -
Breach of Trust, OPM, and the Intelligence Community
I have now had a little time to digest Shane Harris’s story in the Daily Beast this morning on the intelligence community’s concerns in 2010 about OPM’s data security. The relevant passage from the GAO r...
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