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Whose Fault is the OPM Hack Really?
Everyone's mad at the Office of Personnel Management, and I totally get why. The hack is awful, the magnitude staggering. The consequences will be big, both for the country and for lots of individuals. I... -
Bits and Bytes
The Lopht warns of cyber insecurity ... in 1998. A fantastic review article about how we got to where we are today. "The seven young men sitting before some of Capitol Hill’s most powerful lawmakers we... -
Storifying the Oversight System for JSOC Kill/Capture Ops
I'm not certain this adds value, but I've decided to give Storify a shot. My first shot at it uses the platform to pull together my posts on the ongoing development of the statutory regime for oversight... -
D.C. District Judge Sides with CIA in Drone FOIA Case
A D.C. District judge ruled yesterday that the CIA can keep nearly all information related to its drone activities and the legal basis for them secret, reports Josh Gerstein of Politico. U.S. -
Eliminating the Afghanistan Exception to the Oversight Regime for Military Kill/Capture Ops
A little-noticed provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 might expand Congressional oversight of kill/capture operations conducted by the U.S. military. The change argua... -
The Attack on Belmokhtar and the Scope of the AUMF
It appears that the United States conducted an airstrike in Libya yesterday, targeting and killing Mokhtar Belmokhtar--a notorious Algerian terrorist who was once a member of GIA and GSPC, continued as a... -
The OPM Data Breach: Congress Should Investigate, but Should Consider Its Own Responsibility for Protecting Federal Workers
The data breach of OPM’s personnel records system is a privacy and security disaster for the U.S. Government and for the 4 million (and possibly as many as 14 million) current and former federal employee... -
Why The Weak And Hesitant Response to the OPM Breach?
The NYT reports that the Obama administration is “considering financial sanctions against the attackers [from China] who gained access to the files of millions of federal workers” in from Office of Perso... -
I, For One, Welcome Our Samurai Robot Overlords
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CISA Agonistes
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 passed out of the Intelligence Committee by a 14-1 vote. With that passage, and the House adopton of two similar bills in April, some of us had begun t... -
Congress and the IANA Transition—A Bipartisan Agreement
The United States is in the midst of a transition that will, when completed, give up its contractual control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). That authority is currently conducted by t... -
Hacking as Offensive Counter Intelligence
The OPM intrusion has grave implications for the personally identifiable information of the four million present and former employees whose data was compromised. As this post on Hacking as Offensive Cou...
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