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SinoTech: The U.S. and China Remain Defiant in Their Trade and Tech Positions Ahead of the G20 Summit
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U.S. Cyber Infiltration of the Russian Electric Grid: Implications for Deterrence
The New York Times reported on June 15 that “the United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin.” In particular, the Times r... -
A Method for Establishing Liability for Data Breaches
Last month, the First American Financial Corporation—which provides title insurance for millions of Americans—acknowledged a cybersecurity vulnerability that potentially exposed 885 million private finan... -
U.S. Cyber Command and the Russian Grid: Proportional Countermeasures, Statutory Authorities and Presidential Notification
A blockbuster article by David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth in the New York Times reports U.S. Cyber Command operations to hold at-risk at least some aspects of the electric power grid in Russia. The story... -
Hackback Is Back: Assessing the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act
The “hackback” debate has been with us for many years. -
Entering the Third Decade of Cyber Threats: Toward Greater Clarity in Cyberspace
Over the course of just a few decades, the world has entered into a digital age in which powerful evolving cyber capabilities provide access to everyone connected online from any place on the planet. Tho... -
Cyber Gaslighting: PsyOps in the Home
Home-based internet devices are becoming an increasingly integral part of our daily lives. By 2021, more than half of the houses in the country will be smart homes—homes equipped with electronic devices ... -
YouTube’s Bad Week and the Limitations of Laboratories of Online Governance
The techlash has well and truly arrived on YouTube’s doorstep. On June 3, the New York Times reported on research showing that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm serves up videos of young people to viewe... -
SinoTech: U.S.-China Tech Conflict Deepens as China Creates ‘Unreliable Entities’ List
On Friday, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced the establishment of an “unreliable entities” list. Gao Feng, a ministry spokesman, said that “foreign enterprises, organizations and individuals that do... -
The GCHQ’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process
In the U.S. there has been a long debate about “vulnerability equities”—that is, whether the government should disclose a vulnerability it discovers to the vendor, which will then allow users to apply a ... -
Open Letter to GCHQ on the Threats Posed by the Ghost Proposal
Last fall, Lawfare published a piece by Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson of GCHQ entitled Principles for a More Informed Exceptional Access Debate. -
About That Pelosi Video: What to Do About ‘Cheapfakes’ in 2020
In the summer of 2016, a meme began to circulate on the fringes of the right-wing internet: the notion that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was seriously ill. Clinton suffered from Parkinson’s dis...
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