SecurityNews
During her visit to China, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an inexcusable public declaration. She stated that America and China were both “victims of… Read More
Last week, Heritage published a listing of cybersecurity breaches affecting federal government systems from 2004 to the present. The listing is already out of date…. Read More
For the past two weeks, Washington has been in the depths of a discussion about the best way to stop the online theft of intellectual… Read More
Is Congress about to limit freedom of speech on the Internet? Two bills wending their way through the Senate and the House may do just… Read More
Sometimes my friends and colleagues wonder why I fixate on cybersecurity and the Internet. I tell them all the time that it is the single… Read More
As the ball dropped in Times Square and bells across the globe rang in the new year, the cyber world reminded us, yet again, that… Read More
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is a well-meaning law that is hopelessly overbroad. It starts from an unobjectionable premise—there ought to be a… Read More
On November 8, officials in Springfield, Illinois, discovered that cyber hackers had gained remote access to the city’s water utility. As The Washington Post reports,… Read More
Do you know all the laws of the United States? Do you know all the laws of each of the 50 states (not to mention… Read More
The law, increasingly, is becoming a tool used by opponents of American power to harass American officials and, through the courts, limit America’s freedom of… Read More
You have to love this story. Apparently, WikiLeaks is plagued by … you guessed it, leaks! Confronted with the fact that some of its volunteers… Read More
Congress did something important yesterday: It took a stand on behalf of American security, and it did so at the risk of angering our European… Read More
The report today from the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission is chilling but not terribly surprising. According to the commission (pages 243–44): For about… Read More
The Washington Post is right. In an editorial today, the paper called to account the European Parliament, whose fixations on “amorphous anxieties” about privacy (to… Read More
As Congress gets ready to return from its election break for a short lame duck session it faces many pressing issues (taxes and the budget… Read More
Well deserved kudos to the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Janet Napolitano. Since the failed December bombing attempt over Detroit demonstrated gaps in airport… Read More
In the U.S. House of Representatives, new legislation to prepare for and prevent WMD attacks must go through not one, not two, not three, but… Read More
LawNews
On June 21, in Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the painfully obvious – that providing material support to terrorists is a… Read More
“We slipped up.” That’s what Patrick F. Kennedy the Undersecretary of State for Management said at a Senate hearing last week about the Christmas Day… Read More
