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As readers know, the FBI has accessed the phone of Sayed Farook and the government has withdrawn its motion to compel Apple’s assistance. Paul Rosenzweig and Jason Healy have a wager as to whether or not...
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Along with the Center for Democracy and Technology, Intel Security, and the Hoover Institution in Washington, Lawfare is pleased to invite you to join us for a lively debate on "Using Data to Secure Netw...
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Hold that sigh of relief.
If you think the "Going Dark" debate is "Going Away" just because the FBI has figured out a way into the San Bernadino iPhone, think again and remember these words that might a...
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IDOMENI, Greece—Water-logged, mud-sodden, hungry and tired, and waiting on the Greece-Macedonia border are 11,000 of the people whose fate the European Union and Turkey decided recently at their refugee ...
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Election-year immigration talk has turned, as it often does, to focus on a wall across our southern border as a centerpiece to security and foreign policy. And the recent attacks in Brussels, San Bernard...
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Last Thursday I participated in a discussion (not really a debate) about the broader implications of the Apple v. FBI dispute. The event was hosted by George Washington University. I was joined by Ari ...
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At least 72 people were killed, including many children, and hundreds more were injured in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a park targeting Christians celebrating Easter. Accord...
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The attacks in Brussels on Tuesday morning are a harrowing reminder that global threats to liberal democracy are born domestically as well as abroad. It is incumbent upon lawmakers in Europe and in the U...
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I am delighted to announce important changes to our masthead.
First, Julian Ku and Robert Loeb have both agreed to become contributing editors. Lawfare readers already know their work well, as they have...
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A Review of Michael V. Hayden, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror (Penguin 2016).
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On Friday, the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces had killed senior ISIS commander Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, known as “Haji Imam.” According to reports, U.S.
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The next in our series of Hoover Book Soirees will take place at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place this evening, when Jack interviews Adam Segal about his new book, The Hacked Wo...
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Run -- don't walk, run -- to your nearest movie theater and see Eye in the Sky. This new release is playing as an "artistic movie" with limited publicity and I do not know how long it will be in theater...
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Editor's Note: The Islamic State produces potent propaganda, inspiring tens of thousands of Muslims to travel to Syria to fight and encouraging other Muslims to launch attacks in their home countries. Th...
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This week on the podcast, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes interviews Amy Zegart and Stephen Krasner, both of the Hoover Institution, about their recently released national security strategy called Pragmatic En...
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As Ben has reported, Apple has said publicly that it expects the FBI to disclose to it any vulnerability that a third party outsider might discover. Ben characterizes this as "digital chutzpah" in light...
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Robert Chesney and Steve Vladeck examined if there was a coherent middle ground in the Apple vs. FBI All Writs Act dispute.
Cody Poplin flagged DOJ’s motion to postpone its hearing on the San Bernardino...
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At Time I have a piece examining the DOJ indictments of the Iranians allegedly involved in the DDOS cyberattacks on financial services in New York. The Iranians appear to have been indicted for retali...
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced today that a senior Islamic State operative was killed during a special operations raid in Syria.
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Lawfare is pleased to announced the publication of a new paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History by Tony Rutkowski.
From the abstract: