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Defending Drones at the Oxford Union
Going to a university campus to defend the use of armed drones is a little like ascending the pulpit in a Southern Baptist church on a Sunday morning to speak on behalf of the Devil. -
Obama Drone Strikes Targeting Low Level Insurgents?
Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, which is the leading compiler of information about US drone strikes, made this interesting comment in his testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Commi... -
Court Prohibits Government Hack Back
This report from today's Wall Street Journal is fascinating. It involves the decision of a Magistrate Judge to deny a government application for a search warrant in which the government proposed to inst... -
Today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on the Targeted Killing Program
As Greg McNeal noted, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights is holding a hearing this afternoon on the targeted killing program entitled "Drone ... -
Cybersecurity, Einstein 3 and Privacy
Einstein 3 is the Federal Government's expanded system for protecting Federal cyber networks through the inspection of all traffic heading to Federal networks. It is both an intrusion detection and an i... -
CATO Event on Drones
Ben and Steve are speaking on a panel at the CATO Institute entitled "Drones and the New Way of War" along with Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Benjamin Friedman of CATO. The event will be moderated b... -
Mary Laurie Writes a "Chinese White Paper"
Mary M. Laurie, a third-year law student at Penn State Law, has rewritten the DOJ White Paper on targeted killing from the perspective the Chinese government. She explains: China considered using a drone... -
Was that a Throwbot Used in the Ricin Raid?
The Daily Mail ran the following picture in this article about the raid on the home of alleged Ricin-mailer Kevin Curtis: Notice the device the guy on his knees is holding. -
Brookings' Allan Friedman on the Rhetoric Surrounding CISPA
My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a technology and cybersecurity expert, sent over this comment on the House's approval, yesterday, of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CIS... -
CISPA Passes in the House
The House of Representatives has passed the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, by a vote of 288-127. This happened after several amendments were adopted (most notably one offered by ... -
The Dark Future of International Cybersecurity Regulation
Michael J. Glennon, of Tufts University, has an important new piece out entitled "The Dark Future of Cybersecurity Regulation." It's a realistic view, in my judgement, of the prospects of international ... -
Today in Cyber on the Hill -- CISPA Heads to the House Floor
It was a busy day on the House side in Cyber. The House Rules Committee reported out the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act for consideration on the House floor tomorrow. Meanwhile t...
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