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...

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 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...

The annual WeRobot program has emerged as the key conference on the legal, policy, moral, and other normative questions related to robotics.

Cyber security maven Dan Geer has given three speeches in the last six months that are worth a read: (a) APT in a World of Rising Interdependence, given last month at the NSA; (b) We Are All Intelligence...

In a post at Just Security on Thursday, my friend Ryan Goodman takes issue with my testimony before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board, in which I said that even if the U.S.

David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report about how the NSA has successfully placed backdoors into the networks of the Chinese Telecommunications giant Huawei for purposes of (a) discerning Huawei's links ...

Secrecy---of the sort that typically shrouds cyber-defense and cyber-attack capabilities and doctrine---complicates the development of international norms.  Secrecy makes it difficult to engage in sustai...

In an earlier post regarding MH370, I wondered why it was that transponders on airplanes were still capable of being turned off.  I feel rather justified to realize that I’m not the only one asking the q...

I had an idea the other day---a way for NSA to serve the national interest, do good for humanity, and improve its public image all at once. Drum roll, please! NSA should get into the business of publishi...

Fools, they say, rush in where angels fear to tread.  Proving that I am less angelic than foolish (and confident that the blogosphere will quickly forget these musings), I thought I'd offer a few Homelan...

It is almost axiomatic in Washington, that the bureaucracy buries news of which it is not proud with a release late in the day on a Friday afternoon.  Though it is a bit harsh to say so, one suspects tha...