NYT's Scott Shane on Cyber Ops and Secrecy
Scott Shane raises important questions in his article today about transparency and offensive U.S. cyber capabilities and operations. There are lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience with respect to drone operations and the costs of secrecy -- especially when there is no real doubt that the U.S. is engaged in some activities -- and some recent moves described in the article suggest that the government may be heeding those lessons.
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Scott Shane raises important questions in his article today about transparency and offensive U.S. cyber capabilities and operations. There are lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience with respect to drone operations and the costs of secrecy -- especially when there is no real doubt that the U.S. is engaged in some activities -- and some recent moves described in the article suggest that the government may be heeding those lessons.
Matthew Waxman is a law professor at Columbia Law School, where he chairs the National Security Law Program. He also previously co-chaired the Cybersecurity Center at Columbia University's Data Science Institute, and he is Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served in senior policy positions at the State Department, Defense Department, and National Security Council. After graduating from Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.
