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Several of my Brookings colleagues have gotten together to start a new technology policy blog, appropriately entitled TechTank.
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Chatham House recently held a conference on autonomous military technologies, the focus of which was really the current debate regarding autonomous weapon systems. Kudos to Chatham House for leaning forw...
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As a follow up to my post of yesterday about cyber in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, here is another thought from Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis, the former commander of NATO. In his view NATO should:
Co...
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As the world watches the slow-motion catastrophe that is happening in Crimea and the Ukraine and wondering how it will all play out on the ground, many in the cyber community are asking a different quest...
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Ben Emmerson, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, has released a report in the course of his investi...
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When last we debated the Government’s legal authority to kill an American terrorist overseas, some big-ticket questions had to do with proof: exactly how much evidence would be required before executive ...
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Another tidbit from the NYT story Ben just flagged:
It is unclear what Mr. Obama’s position is on whether Mr. Shami should be targeted. American officials said that as part of the new rules ordered by Mr.
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The New York Times has the answer---sort of:
WASHINGTON — He is known as Abdullah al-Shami, an Arabic name meaning Abdullah the Syrian. But his nom de guerre masks a reality: He was born in the United S...
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I haven't watched these two speeches from the RSA conference yet, but Paul tells me they are both worth seeing:
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The security company RSA is hosting a conference this week in San Francisco, at which I'll be speaking tomorrow on a minor panel. This morning however is the big keynote set of speeches. And what is mo...
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David Sanger reports that the Pentagon and the NSA planned a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at “the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure” that “would essentially turn the li...
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There has certainly been much written about the controversy over autonomous weapons systems, but in my preparation for a Chatham House conference on autonomous weapons, I found one argument made by advoc...