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Walter Pincus, the Washington Post’s recently-retired national security reporter, sat down with Benjamin Wittes at the Hoover Book Soiree to discuss Walter's recent essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and the...
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The New York Times is reporting more leaks from the Democrat party email hoard: "A hacker believed to be tied to the Russian intelligence services made public another set of internal Democratic Party doc...
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Benjamin Wittes broke down the newly released “Drone Playbook” and why this is another sign that we need a morally serious president.
Robert Loeb notified us of a lawsuit that grieving parents of two fa...
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U.S.-backed forces battling the Islamic State stated on Friday that they had launched a final assault to flush the remaining ISIS fighters out of the city of Manbij. The Syria Democratic Forces, buttress...
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Over the past few months, a team at Mozilla has been looking closely at the recent remote hacking cases currently winding their way through the courts. Because the cases involve the possible disclosure o...
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Earlier this week, a suicide bomber outside a crowded hospital in Quetta, Pakistan killed at least 74 people, most of them judges or lawyers, and wounded dozens more. Yesterday, another blast in Quetta w...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made headlines once again yesterday by saying that he would be “fine” with trying American citizens accused of terrorism in military commissions at Guantanamo...
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Just over a week ago, at the BlackHat hacker convention in Las Vegas, Ivan Krstić, Head of Security Engineering and Architecture at Apple gave a talk entitled “Behind the scenes of iOS Security,” the sli...
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Russia announced plans for a daily three-hour ceasefire in Aleppo, beginning Thursday, to allow aid convoys to enter the city safely. A Russian Defense Ministry official said Moscow would partner with th...
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While substantial ink has been spilled (and continues to be spilled) over Russia’s de facto annexation of Crimea and South Ossetia, comparatively little attention has been paid to the Russia’s attempted ...
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Amid an onslaught of privacy and cybersecurity threats, it can be difficult to predict which potential concerns will capture the public imagination. A particularly unlikely candidate for public debate ov...
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Twitter won a first round yesterday on the question of whether CDA § 230 immunizes the company against civil lawsuits over its provision of service to terrorist groups. Here's the decision from Judge Wil...
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At various points in his campaign, Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for a temporary ban on all Muslim (including U.S.
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The encryption debate seems to have died down for now. But events have a way of intruding. As the Hill reports: "Researchers who uncovered a security key that protects Windows devices as they boot up s...
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Tunisia’s Prime Minister-designate, Youssef Chahed, is expected to announce his cabinet this week, well ahead of the September 3 deadline. Chahed, who was appointed by President Beji Caid Essebsi on Augu...
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Syrian rebels have rejected claims that they have lost ground in Aleppo to government forces and allies.
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Editor's Note: This article has been updated to more accurately reflect the circumstances under which a defense intelligence component may collect U.S. personal information inside the United States.
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