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Heartbleed as Metaphor
I begin with a paragraph from Wikipedia: Self-organized criticality is one of a number of important discoveries made in statistical physics and related fields over the latter half of the 20th century, di... -
Second Circuit Orders Release of Al Awlaki Memo
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a lower court opinion and ordered the government to release key portions of the legal memos that lie behind the targeted killing of Anwar Al ... -
Bits and Bytes
India suggests renaming the Internet. Not, apparently, a joke: "In a major diplomatic initiative, India is all set to challenge the U.S.’ hegemony of the World Wide Web at a global meet on Internet gove... -
9/11 Case Motions Hearing: April 17 Session
There's a small band of us here at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the venue where we'll take in, via slightly-delayed, Closed Circuit Television, more of a pre-trial motions session in the 9/11 military c... -
Metadata, Cellphone Geolocation Tracking, and Innocence
In the current discussions of NSA surveillance, we often talk as though metadata and cell phone tracking are simple creatures of government power. It is government, after all, that collects bulk metadata... -
The Policy Tension on Zero-Days Will Not Go Away
The proposition that NSA should under no circumstances stockpile zero-day vulnerabilities, but should in all cases disclose them in order to perfect defenses, apparently has appeal in some quarters. It ... -
Cyber Paradox: Every Offensive Weapon is a (Potential) Chink in Our Defense -- and Vice Versa
As Ben notes, the USG denied a Bloomberg News report that the “U.S. -
Wishful Thinking Department
Conversation at the Rosenzweig breakfast table this morning: Wife: "That's just dreaming." Me: "What?" Wife (pointing to front page New York Times article): "Thinking that the Chinese will become mor... -
A Summary of Friday's Decision in al-Aulaqi v. Panetta
As Ben mentioned on Friday, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a Bivens suit brought by the families of Anwar al-Aulaqi, his son Abdulrahman, and Sam... -
Bits and Bytes -- Military Focus
Three items of particular interest to our cyber warfare aficionados in today's Bits and Bytes (plus one lagniappe on the Internet of Things): Developments in Iranian Cyber Warfare 2013-14. From the In... -
Judge Collyer Throws Out Al-Aulaqi Bivens Suit
Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has thrown out the Bivens suit by the families of Anwar Al-Aulaqi and his son, and Samir Khan, all of whom were U.S. citizen... -
WeRobot2014 Conference Underway at University of Miami
The annual WeRobot program has emerged as the key conference on the legal, policy, moral, and other normative questions related to robotics.
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