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A few weeks ago, I took note of the comments of China-cybersecurity expert James Lewis to the effect that those much-derided US indictments of PLA hackers had actually had a big impact of Chinese cyber-s...
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I have an op-ed in tomorrow’s New York Times explaining why I think we’re at a critical moment in the regulation of the global Internet. States are increasingly asserting territorial control over the In...
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Today's fascinating piece by Matthew Waxman and Doron Hindin, "How Does Israel Regulate Encryption?," raises a number of questions in my mind, two of which I put out to readers by way of soliciting infor...
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Recent terrorist attacks and resulting questions about the limits of surveillance have rekindled debate about how governments should deal with the challenges of powerful, commercially available encryptio...
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On October 22, 2015, the Department of Transportation and the FAA created a task force to propose a process and rules for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) registration. sUAS are commonly referred t...
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The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Registration Task Force Aviation Rulemaking Committee has issued its final report dated November 21, 2015.
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Editor’s note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School have released their latest report regarding autonomous weapon systems: Precedent for Preemption: The Ban on Blinding Las...
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In 2013, in the early days of the Snowden leaks, Harvard Law School professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith reflected on the increase in NSA surveillance post 9/11. He wrote:
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Yesterday, the 2015 G20 Summit in Turkey released the G20 Leaders' Communiqué. Those provisions relating to commercial cyberespionage and hacking will be a particular interest to Lawfare readers.
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A variety of sources are reporting that the terrorists in Paris used encryption that may have thwarted intelligence efforts to monitor their pre-attack activities. (See, for example, today's New York Tim...
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Last Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal (November 10, 2015) carried a front-page story titled “Ukraine: Cyberwar’s Hottest Front.”