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Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell – both Republican Senators from Kentucky – despise the USA Freedom Act for different reasons. As readers know, the Freedom Act ends bulk collection while giving the NSA the...
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The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice has released a new unclassified report reviewing the FBI's use of Section 215 orders from 2007 through 2009.
Specifically, the revie...
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Providing physical security to its citizens is undoubtedly the core function of the state. As readers of Lawfare well know, it is hard work to figure out how that security function should be reconciled w...
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ISIS militants have seized control of the Syrian city of Palmyra, as well as the world renowned archaeological site located on the outskirts of the city. The Associated Press writes that Syrian governmen...
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Fadi Chehade, the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has announced his intention to step down, effective March 2016. The United States is in the midst of a transitio...
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Here’s something a little outside the normal Lawfare fare but which Lawfare readers might find interesting: A new paper we have written about all the privacy benefits we receive from technologies we typi...
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Logjam is a new attack against the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol used in TLS. Basically:
The Logjam attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade vulnerable TLS connections to 512-bit ex...
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I haven't watched this yet, but it took place yesterday at Georgetown Law's Cybersecurity Law Institute. Ben Powell, former general counsel to the DNI, interviews Jim Comey:
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The University of Adelaide has a free new MOOC called Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security that is taught by Melissa de Zwart, Dale Stephens, and Rebecca LaForgia. The web page and registration can be f...
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's Rachel Brand penned an opinion piece in today's Christian Science Monitor. It opens:
The heated debate in Congress about whether to reauthorize Section ...
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Dustin Volz of the National Journal has obtained a memo from the Department of Justice circulated among congressional offices today that says the NSA will need to begin taking steps to wind down the bul...
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This morning, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a new trove of documents recovered during the May 2011 raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The re...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence today released a new set of documents recovered during the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011.
The release contain...
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Julian Hattem has a good piece in the Hill on the current state of play in the Senate with respect to expiration of the Patriot Act provisions in less than two weeks:
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Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of six Chinese nationals on charges of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets "for their roles in a long-running effort to obtain U.S....
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Our guest for Episode 67 is Dan Geer, a legendary computer security commentator and current CISO for In-Q-Tel. We review Dan’s recommendations for improving computer security, including mandatory reporti...
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Senator Richard Burr, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently made comments to press suggesting that he believed the sunset for Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act will occur sometim...
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Following an American special forces raid on the compound of Islamic State operative Abu Sayyaf, U.S. interrogators, who are part of the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, have flown to Iraq in ord...
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Secretary of State Kerry just gave a speech in Korea (May 18, 2015) entitled “An Open and Secure Internet: We Must Have Both.”
In this speech, he reiterates the U.S. position that “the basic rules of in...
