Jack has already offered a number of thoughts on the indictment yesterday of 5 Chinese PLA members for cyber espionage.  Let me offer a few additional thoughts that pick up on some of those threads: If...

Why did the USG indict Chinese military officers for cybertheft?  It knows that there is no practical chance of convictions (because, among other reasons, the defendants will never appear in the United S...

A report from the cyber underground where most of my Lawfare colleagues don't normally follow:  File this one as a delicious irony (or, if you prefer, a delightful irrationality).  Many will recall that ...

I have spent the day, which is not over yet in Palo Alto, at a conference at the Hoover Institution on "Intelligence Challenges." The rules of the workshop, unfortunately, prohibit me from disclosing who...

Estonian Voting. A new group, Estonia Voting, claims that there are major cybersecurity gaps in the Estonian electronic voting system: “As international experts on e-voting security, we decided to perfor...

Two reasons often given for the need to transfer targeting killing by drone from CIA exclusively to DOD are (i) collateral damage reduction, because DOD supposedly has stricter targeting criteria and bet...

In his response to my earlier Lawfare post on the FBI's investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and a later review of that investigation by various Inspectors General, Michael German misconceives my argument....

So reports the BBC. The incident apparently happened back in March: A drone almost collided with a US commercial flight in March, an official with America's flight regulatory agency has revealed.

For those who are still wondering why the Obama administration has not followed through on the idea of shifting all responsibility for drone strikes from CIA to JSOC, this story from Ken Dilanian of the ...

"I believe that killing an American citizen without a trial is an extraordinary concept and deserves serious debate," writes Sen. Rand Paul in an oped in the New York Times this morning. "I can’t imagine...

An interesting tidbit today regarding US involvement in Yemen, from Politico's first-rate briefer Morning Defense: MORE MILITARY SUPPORT COULD BE COMING: Shy of putting boots on the ground, the U.S. gove...