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Bloomberg Business is reporting that now that the FBI may have a way into the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, Apple wants it to disclose what it’s doing. “Apple lawyers on Monday said that if the case pr...
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Terrorists attack Brussels in a series of bombings. The FBI tells Apple, “Just kidding!
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What kind of internet world order does China want, and will it succeed? That’s the question we ask Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relation and author of The Hack...
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The manhunt continues in Belgium, following yesterday’s attacks in Brussels that left 31 dead and 270 injured.
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Who is helping the FBI crack the Apple iPhone? Some skeptics say "noone." Other conspircy theorists say, "the NSA." Now Reuters tells us it is an Israeli firm.
Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mob...
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The Brussels terror attacks, like the Paris attacks last year, were an assault on European values of democracy and human rights. While Brussels has a serious problem with violent extremism—it has contrib...
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee is hearing testimony this morning on the Administration's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure...
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Something is going wrong with international counterterrorism efforts. It is undeniable.
The extensive, coordinated, devastating terrorist attacks in Paris in November and the Brussels attack today are i...
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To read the news over the last 24 hours, you’d think the FBI had given up the ghost with its announcement that maybe, just maybe, it had a way into the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone without Apple’s help...
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Yesterday, the Department of Justice filed a motion to vacate a hearing previously scheduled for today on whether Apple can be compelled to unlock the iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the Sa...
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The FBI has asked Magistrate Sheri Pym to postpone a court hearing originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 22, on the her order that Apple assist the FBI in disabling the “10-wrong-tries-and-phone-is-era...
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Today, President Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro as part of an historic visit to Cuba as the two countries revitalize diplomatic relations. President Obama arrived in Havana yesterday, becomin...
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Form should follow function. As we noted late last year, in the context of infrastructure protection this means that the organzation of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) of DHS sho...
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The very public fight between Apple and the FBI over the last six weeks has not only reinvigorated the broader debate over the “going dark” concern (and the larger, age-old tension between privacy and se...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, March 21st at 11 am: The CATO Institute will host an event entitled America's Invisible Wars. Mark Mazzetti will moderate a conversation...
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In bonus episode 106, Stewart and Alan interview Phil Reitinger, former DHS Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity and Sony Corporation CISO and current Director of the new Global Cyber Alliance, making...
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Two years ago, the United States government, acting through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced its intention to sever the last contractual control it had over the ad...
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Editor's Note: Autonomous weapons systems are often vilified as “killer robots” that will slay thousands without compunction – arguments that the systems’ proponents often dismiss with a wave of their ha...
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Last week, General Michael Hayden—the only person to be both the director of the CIA and the NSA—joined Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes at the Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of his new book, Playing to th...