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An Apparently Real Paintball Drone
Yesterday, I was up at Harvard Law School on a panel with Gabriella Blum talking about our new book: The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat. -
A Worry About the New Executive Order on Sanctions for Malicious Cyber Activity
As Paul Rosenzweig noted earlier today in Lawfare, the President just signed out an Executive Order that can result in the imposition of financial sanctions on a variety of bad actors that ply their trad... -
Executive Order on Cyber Sanctions
President Obama has, today, issued an executive order entitled, "Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities." On first glance it looks like a str... -
"The Future of Violence" on Diane Rehm
This morning, Gabriella Blum and I had the pleasure of appearing on the Diane Rehm Show to discuss The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat. -
The Power of Citizenship Bias
Following up on my post from last week on the report of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of the UK Parliament, which inter alia recommended that British law for the first time introduce dist... -
Groundhog Day in the Senate
One of my favorite movies has always been Bill Murray's Groundhog Day. Besides the great acting from Murray (and co-star Andie MacDowell) it's a wonderful exposition of the definition of insanity -- doi... -
New Abbottabad Documents Released in Trial of Abid Naseer
In the trial of Abid Naseer, the U.S. Department of Justice released a trove of new files recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound during the May 2011 raid by U.S. Navy Seals that ended in his death. Se... -
What We Must Do about Cyber
Last week Amy Zegart noted the rapid rise of cyber in the DNI Annual Threat Assessment. As she observed, Cyber is listed as threat number 1 but it's only been number 1 since 2012, suggesting just how fas... -
The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting a New Age of Threat
We're thrilled to announce the publication today of our new book, The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat. -
On Cyber Arms Control (Apropos of the <em>New York Times</em> Editorial)
A bit late, but one more observation about the New York Times editorial calling for cyber arms control. -
Bits and Bytes
Neustar looks to lose its contract. -
FREAK: Security Rollback Attack Against SSL
This week we learned about an attack called "FREAK"---"Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys"---that can break the
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