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Harvard Event with Bruce Schneier and Edward Snowden
On Friday, the former spoke by videolink with the latter, about (unsurprisingly enough) surveillance, privacy and data security. Youtube has a video of their discussion: -
You Are a Lawyer in the Executive Branch
Correspondence finds its way into your inbox, bearing the signature of the newly-installed Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Richard Burr. His letter (per today's New York... -
The State of the Union on Counterterrorism: Does The Rhetoric Match the Policies?
On counterterrorism, the President's speech was a study in mismatches---as was apparent last night in at least two respects. First: The address began with an odd intermix of statements related, on one h... -
The French Response to Terror: Counterterrorism Detention and Prosecutions Across the Atlantic
In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, Western European security forces unleashed a dizzying storm of arrests and prosecutions and announced "exceptional" new... -
The NRC's Bulk Collection Report: a High-Level Overview
Last week, Wells noted the release of an important, 85-page report by the National Research Council. (Yesterday, Herb Lin added his thoughts about it.) Broadly, Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: T... -
Welcome to Brooklyn: 2 AQ members who attacked US forces abroad brought to US for civilian trial
An interesting development in the ongoing debate regarding the optimal disposition for captured al Qaeda members: The Justice Department has just announced that two al Qaeda members (both citizens of Yem... -
National Academies Report on Bulk Signals Intelligence
On January 15, 2015, the National Research Council released a report entitled Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options. -
Reactions to NYT Story on North Korean Cyber Penetration
David Sanger and Martin Fackler write in the NYT that the NSA “drilled into the Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world, picked through connections in Malaysia favored by North Kor... -
New NSA Documents on Offensive Cyberoperations
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exp... -
President Obama Comments on Back-doors in Encryption
We've yet to find a transcript of President Obama's remarks during today's press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, but according to several news outlets, the President made a number o... -
A Response to Bruce Schneier and a Cautious Defense of Energy in the Executive
Bruce Schneier has responded to my earlier exchange with Edward Snowden with a challenging question: Putting aside what the Constitution currently does or does permit, wouldn't it be better if all survei... -
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