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I would normally lay off writing about the flap that has erupted at NYU over Harold Koh's presence there. Academic politics don't interest me much. Student protests interest me even less. And student pro...
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The Wall Street Journal over the weekend ran this essay adapted from our new book, The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat. It opens,
You walk into...
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Several news stories today have highlighted a recently released GAO report which stated that "Modern aircraft are increasingly connected to the Internet. This interconnectedness can potentially provide u...
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Today, the House Homeland Security Committee marked up a cybersecurity information sharing bill that promised to be “the best of bunch” in terms of civil liberties protections among the cybersecurity inf...
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The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) has released a new report that documents civilian casualties caused by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen.
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The New York Times this morning has a story on the internal debate within the administration over whether to capture or kill a U.S.
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I stand corrected. Yesterday, in my post about the new cyber-sanctions EO I made the point that it wouldn't apply to the Sony hack because Sony was not critical infrastructure. I was wrong, as several...
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Yesterday, I was up at Harvard Law School on a panel with Gabriella Blum talking about our new book: The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat.
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As Paul Rosenzweig noted earlier today in Lawfare, the President just signed out an Executive Order that can result in the imposition of financial sanctions on a variety of bad actors that ply their trad...
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President Obama has, today, issued an executive order entitled, "Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities." On first glance it looks like a str...
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This morning, Gabriella Blum and I had the pleasure of appearing on the Diane Rehm Show to discuss The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat.
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Following up on my post from last week on the report of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of the UK Parliament, which inter alia recommended that British law for the first time introduce dist...