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Next Wednesday, May 11, Brookings is holding an online event to release a pair of papers on which I and a team of Lawfare folks have spent a great deal of time over the last several months. The subject i...
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Recently, the Obama Administration announced that it will soon release a redacted version of its Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) governing the use of force in counterterrorism operations outside the U...
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Nextgov reports that the State Department has put out a request for information for a wireless intrustion detection system that the story describes as an “Internet of Things-style surveillance network.”
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence General Counsel Robert Litt has published a new essay in The Yale Law Journal that will likely be of interest to Lawfare readers. Entitled "The Fourth Amen...
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A few weeks ago, as anyone who is not living under a rock will remember, the FBI withdrew its effort to force Apple to unlock an iPhone because, as it told the court, it gained access to the phone throug...
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Security developers tussle between security and usability every day, but security and not weakness has to be the starting point.
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In 2014, at the very beginning of the “Going Dark debate,” FBI Director James Comey gave a challenge to the technical community. Is it possible to create a “front-door” that law enforcement can use to ac...
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On February 16, US Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym, responding to an FBI request, ordered Apple to provide software to bypass the company's technical protections; this would unlock the work phone of Syed Faro...
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A grieving father in Italy has written to Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, to beg him to unblock his dead son’s iPhone so he can retrieve the photographs stored on it.
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It often seems to me that the details of cyber conflict tradecraft are lost in a bit of obscurity. Most Lawfare readers probably haven't given a thought to how attribution is done. To that end, I offer...
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Editor’s Note: What is a drone? Some do surveillance, others hunt terrorists, and some models likely to enter air forces are more akin to sophisticated fighter aircraft. Dave Blair, badass warrior intell...
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As readers are well aware, Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released draft legislation on encryption, the “Compliance with Court Orders Act” (CCOA), the other day. Judging by the apocalyptic te...