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This week, Kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group -- almost certainly the NSA -- and its abilities to embed spyware deep inside computers, gaining pretty much t...
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Editor’s Note: The White House summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) that will begin tomorrow is a bold attempt to tackle the “root causes” of terrorism. Yet more than a decade after 9/11, neither...
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That's the title of this interesting piece, on foreign affairs preemption and executive agreements. The author is Daniel Silverberg, a lawyer working in the House of Representatives on national security ...
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Much of the discussion in recent days about the Obama draft AUMF for ISIL contains mistakes and misconceptions, at least as I see matters.
The Draft AUMF Does Not Limit The President. The biggest canar...
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The president gave a clear and thoughtful interview on the encryption debates Friday, and he nailed the issue.
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The New York Times thinks President Obama's draft AUMF is dangerously broad:
The parameters of a proposed war authorization the White House sent to
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After the ups and downs of this week's hearings in the military commissions case of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al., Thursday provided a much more straightforward series of motions brought...
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Editor’s Note: Fears about nuclear weapons and concerns about East Asia typically reside in separate worlds. But one risk of a rising China that is usually ignored is how it affects the risk of nuclear w...
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A few weeks ago, Shane Harris and Benjamin Wittes spoke at Washington and Lee School of Law’s symposium on Cyber-surveillance in the Post-Snowden Age. Shane and Ben are familiar names to frequent Lawfare...
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After months of dithering, President Barack Obama sent a draft Authorization for Use of Military Force for ISIS to Congress on Wednesday. As it became clearer that the administration would formally reque...
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As many know, the White House held a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University today. In addition to President Obama, a number of CEOs also spoke on privacy and security iss...
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The latest episode of Rational Security is now out. Enjoy!
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In this week’s episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I take our new mobile recording equipment to Paris to talk about Europe’s cybersecurity directive with Alex Klimburg, of the Hague Institute for Strategic ...
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Below you will find a compilation of public statements and reactions to President Obama’s draft ISIL-specific AUMF. In short: Democrats are concerned there aren't enough limits, and Republicans can’t un...
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ISIS militants have seized Al-Baghdadi, a town in western Iraq, and have begun advancing toward nearby Ayn Al-Assad Air Base, which houses U.S. military personnel, CNN reports.
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Have you been pondering the meaning of the ban on "enduring offensive" ground combat operations included in the administration's draft ISIS AUMF? Wondering what it means in practice for the US military t...
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Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations received an "Update on Detainee Transfers from GTMO."
You can read the testimony of the Department of De...
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Susan Landau has published a thought-provoking critique on Lawfare of the UK Prime Minister’s recent remarks covering the powers he believes the State should be afforded to access the electronic communic...
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One year ago, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) reviewed the National Security Agency’s bulk telephony metadata program and concluded the program was both illegal and imprudent as a...
