In his speech yesterday in Seattle, China President Xi Jinping said:

No one could miss the Washington Post story on the options the Obama administration is considering regarding cryptography. They are, in varying degrees, in favor of keeping the status quo ante.

Some entries on the cyber warfare front: US and China Seek Cyber Arms Deal. "The United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commi...

As Ben noted last Friday, it seems clear to me that Apple (and the rest of industry) has won the encryption debate.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that:

When Chancellor Angela Merkel recently cited the “challenges” concerning the National Security Agency as an area that the German government has “tackled excellently” this term, many observers were surpri...

Ben Wittes’ commentary about hybrid conflict asks “what is really new in this idea of hybrid conflict”?, and answers by giving a cyber example that falls at the seams of existing international law. He p...

Two weeks ago the newspapers were filled with leaked threats that the U.S. government was “developing a package of unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals who have bene...

I spent a day and half this week at the Pentagon at a remarkable symposium on so-called "hybrid conflicts" organized by the office of the legal adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The conference took p...

I personally believe the NSA's systems for bulk surveillance represent a direct attack on the Internet and everyone who uses it. The mere presence of these systems is a threat to democracy, only mitigat...