Two new books offer a glimpse of how advances in technology will change how small wars are fought. | Continue reading
Despite what the president says, there’s not a flood of people racing across the border, and the majority of migrants aren’t dangerous criminals. | Continue reading
A provision in the Senate’s proposed 2019 National Defense Authorization Act offers a timely proposal for improving the U.S.’s cybersecurity strategy. | Continue reading
As Jack Goldsmith explains in a riveting new essay, the United States’s “internet freedom” agenda has been a boon for the commercial development of the internet. Yet in virtually every other respect, it has been an abject failure. | Continue reading
There is no serious argument that Robert Mueller’s appointment violates the Constitution. | Continue reading
Do drone strikes really drive terrorist recruitment? Interviews with militants, tribal leaders, and Pakistani intelligence suggest it might not. | Continue reading
What’s worrisome about the fight between the Russian government and the Telegram messaging app. | Continue reading
Last week, a U.N. Special Rapporteur released the body’s first-ever report on the regulation of user-generated online content. | Continue reading
On Wednesday, NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell delivered the following remarks at the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute in a speech entitled “Failing to Keep Pace: The Cyber Threat and Its Implications for Our Privacy Laws.” | Continue reading
GDPR derogations will be applied throughout the EU. A few potential state-to-state variations will have implications for privacy and security. | Continue reading
The Washington Post reports that the FBI has repeatedly overstated the number of devices it can’t unlock. | Continue reading
It would be far too easy to get into a war with China. How would it end? | Continue reading
Last week, researchers disclosed vulnerabilities in a large number of encrypted email clients. The case teaches us some important lessons about security vulnerabilities in general and email security in particular. | Continue reading
President Trump orders the Justice Department to investigate the Russia investigation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo details the administration’s strategy for dealing with Iran. And Trump appears to say that North Korea might not need to get rid of its nuclear weapons after all. … | Continue reading
British Attorney General Jeremy Wright delivered public remarks describing the U.K. position on cyber and international law. This is an important step in developing and defending interpretations of existing international frameworks as applied to cyber. | Continue reading
Governments that believe proxy wars will let them have their cake and eat it too should think again. | Continue reading
A new Comment in the Yale Law Journal argues that, by harnessing the fear of blame, a seemingly-procedural requirement played a substantive role in thwarting the Obama Administration’s efforts to close Guantanamo. | Continue reading
We should view the innovations of online advertising less as a threat than as an opportunity to think more rigorously about the bargains we strike with companies like Facebook as individuals, and the bargains we collectively strike with such companies as a society. | Continue reading
Opportunities to glimpse misinformation in action are fairly rare. But after the recent attack in Toronto, a journalist on Twitter unwittingly carried out a natural experiment that shows how quickly “fake news” can spread. | Continue reading
Recommendations for a long-term strategy on controlling nation-state cyber conflicts. | Continue reading
Many issues need to be addressed as Cyber Command implements “command vision” is implemented. | Continue reading
Is an essential tool for law enforcement and cybersecurity researchers coming apart at the seams? | Continue reading
A law-nerd analysis of whether Donald J. Trump Jr. violated the CFAA based on his recently-disclosed e-mail. | Continue reading
A review of Paul Scharre’s “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War” (W.W. Norton, 2018). | Continue reading