Offline -- The Chinese Peril

Paul Rosenzweig
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 9:39 PM
Those who follow my blog posts devoutly (both of you :-)) will be sad to learn that I will be off-line from now until the July 4th holiday.  Of course, as with everything I write about, the underlying reason for being off-line has a cybersecurity connection. You see, I will be traveling for pleasure to China with my wife and one of my grandsons.  For obvious reasons, none of us will be taking any personal electronics with us.  For equally obvious reasons, I won't be using any public computers to login remotely to any of my email accounts.  And because I certainly don't want to place the Lawfa

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Those who follow my blog posts devoutly (both of you :-)) will be sad to learn that I will be off-line from now until the July 4th holiday.  Of course, as with everything I write about, the underlying reason for being off-line has a cybersecurity connection. You see, I will be traveling for pleasure to China with my wife and one of my grandsons.  For obvious reasons, none of us will be taking any personal electronics with us.  For equally obvious reasons, I won't be using any public computers to login remotely to any of my email accounts.  And because I certainly don't want to place the Lawfare blog at risk, I also won't be accessing our blog remotely to post  .... even if I have something to say. It will be odd to be so completely disconnected from the network.  The fact that I feel the necessity of doing so is a testament to how perilous the current cybersecurity situation seems.

Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security program at American University, and a Board Member of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.

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