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Ben Wittes makes a modest proposal to backdoor encryption by removing legal protections from service providers, but the modest proposal has some major problems. First, a backdoor mandate by any other nam...
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“Going Dark” is really two separate, if related, debates. Apple is looking to be the voice of the tech industry on both. The problem is that the company can’t seem to keep its story straight, and it is a...
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Prior to the release of the new Berkman Center report, which included input from both current and former national security officials, recent attention had been focusing on NSA Director Rogers’ comments l...
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I’ve been thinking about out-of-the-box ways to address the "Going Dark" problem.
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Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society convened an interdisciplinary group to take on vexing questions of surveillance and cybersecurity. The group has now released the report “Don’t Panic.” Her...
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More drones, means more conflict in dronespace. The Dutch have a unique solution, captured in this video: "The Dutch police have partnered with Guard From Above, a raptor training company based in Denmar...
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Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society convened an interdisciplinary group to take on vexing questions of surveillance and cybersecurity. The group has now released the report “Don’t Panic.” Her...
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Just over a year ago, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University convened a diverse group of security and policy exp...
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A busy day with a nice collection of stories (coincidentally all from the Washington Post this time around):
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This is interesting for folks interested in The Future of Violence—a new report on "Hostile Drones: The Hostile Use of Drones By Non-State Actors Against British Targets." Published by something called t...
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Pentagon Delays Cybersecurity Requirements. "The Pentagon has delayed for almost two years a requirement that as many as 10,000 companies show that they have systems to protect sensitive but unclassified...
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The Defense Innovation Initiative (DII) is a DOD-wide initiative “to pursue innovative ways to sustain and advance the capabilities of the ‘force of the future,’” involving two key effort: the Defense In...