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Editor's Note: Autonomous weapons systems are often vilified as “killer robots” that will slay thousands without compunction – arguments that the systems’ proponents often dismiss with a wave of their ha...
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I was very skeptical about last September’s US-China “agreement” in which China pledged that it would not “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secre...
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The cyber domain covers the entire globe. Given its breadth the challenge in finding universal norms of behavior is great -- it requires cross-cultural and cross-geographic agreement amongst people with...
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I recently appeared on the Brown University Cybersecurity News Podcast to discuss bridging the lawyer and technology divide in the debate between Apple and the FBI. Interested Lawfare readers can listen ...
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With the benefit of historical hindsight a few years from now, we may look back on March 2016 as a turning point in the debate over encryption, surveillance and civil liberties. The new phase of the deba...
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The FBI hacks people. What do their warrants look like?
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First came the motion to compel Apple to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters; then Apple's motion to vacate; then the government's opposition to that motion. And now we have Apple's r...
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Don’t look now but a new front is about to open up in the Second Crypto War. The Hill reports that the encryption legislation being drafted by Senate Intelligence Committee leaders Richard Burr and Diann...
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Here's the brief, which I haven't read yet.
FBI Apple CDCal Govt Reply
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Just this morning, I was thinking that things have been rather quiet with respect to media coverage of U.S. operations against AQ and AQ affiliates in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Well...
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Legislators in France are watching closely the fight between Apple and the FBI, but, in the meantime, the French National Assembly has amended a pending counterterrorism bill to impose heavy penalties on...
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This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Wilson Center takes on the Apple v. FBI controversy in a panel entitled “Will They or Won’t They? Understanding the Encryption Debate.”