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It's been a bad few years for the free exchange of ideas on campuses around the country. Barely a day goes by where we don't read some story about students at elite institutions trying to silence one ano...
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The FBI may be hoarding a Firefox exploit. What does this mean?
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The cessation of hostilities in Syria is looking increasingly unstable. In what Reuters described as "the fiercest government assault in the area" since the cessation of hostilities began last month, the...
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Following up on Ashley’s piece on Brian Egan’s good speech at the ASIL meeting last week, I have a piece at Time explaining that that Egan adopts the Bush administration’s controversial preemption doctri...
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Hot on the heels of another transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees—this time to Senagal—and amid news that nine more detainees are likely to be transferred in the next two weeks, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH...
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In episode 109, we interview Perianne Boring of the Chamber of Digital Commerce on the regulatory challenges of bitcoin and the blockchain. In the news roundup, we bring back Apple v.
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Earlier this year, former National Security Agency (NSA) Director and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director General (Retired) Michael Hayden was asked what American armed forces would do if o...
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Following in an important tradition of speech-giving by senior Obama Administration officials about international law and the use of force, Brian Egan, the new Legal Adviser at the State Department, gave...
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Wednesday evening finds me at Kenyon College, at a conference on privacy, where I will speaking tomorrow on a combination of this paper and some work I have been doing recently on sexual extortion online...
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Islamic State militants reportedly used mustard gas against Syrian military forces. Reuters reports that the Islamic State “attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian m...
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Excellent! Make sure you watch to the end to see the countermeasures that defeat this menace.
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A recent headline proclaimed “Syria's Alawites distance themselves from Assad.” The story refers to a document, reportedly authored by a number of Alawite clergymen, that seeks to both clarify and redefi...
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The New York Times' Charlie Savage reports that the United States military transferred two Libyan detainees to Senegal on Monday. The two men, Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr and Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby...
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NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning on the state of United States Cyber Command.
His statement for the record is available here.
You can...
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Information warfare continues to morph before our eyes into tactics and problems that we cannot really conceive. You may have thought that the OPM hack was a problem -- the personal information of every...
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The deal between the EU and Turkey to manage the flow of refugees from Syria, made public at the end of the European Council meeting on March 18, has big potential benefits for both the EU and Turkey. Bu...
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On February 29, 2016, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Senator Mark Warner, a bipartisan team, introduced legislation to create a National Commission on Security and Technology Cha...
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Two senior intelligence analysts at U.S. Central Command are claiming that the military forced them out of their jobs for telling the truth about President Obama’s war on the Islamic State.
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Nothing is completely secure -- not even the secure communications link between the Israeli Defense Force and its drones. As Small Wars Journal reports:
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Last week, in Al Razak v. Obama, a D.C. district court (addressing the habeas petition of Guantanamo detainee Haji Hamdullah) weighed in on one of the big questions in law-of-war detention at Guantanamo ...