Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
The Washington Post has a great piece about the InfoWar Monitor project, including interviews with my former ONI colleagues Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski. Cyberwar is a new, murky, and fascinating zone of interstate conflict. Most interestingly, it’s one where combat is outsourced: hackers and denial of service attacks can come from volunteers and on-line [...]
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Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Security, international, national security
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Works in more places… I suppose the fake place name would be NSFrancisPying. (Hat tip to an anonymous friend!)
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the Sixth Circuit’s ruling that the plaintiffs in the NSA suit here in Michigan lacked standing. The hard part, of course, is it’s extremely difficult to prove standing [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, NSA, Privacy, international, national security
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Robert O’Harrow, a Washington Post reporter who is very insightful and current in his coverage of data privacy (and author of a good book on it too), today chronicles the inevitable first stirrings of government fear about virtual worlds such as Second Life:
Intelligence officials who have examined these systems say they’re convinced that the qualities [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, NSA, Virtual Worlds, national security
Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
There’s significant furor over a photograph (found by Dan Twohig of MonsterMaritime) of an Ohio-class missile sub that shows the boat’s “stealth” propeller (designed to generate minimal noise and hence evade detection). The photo appears on Microsoft’s Live Local (run using Virtual Earth) service (a Google Earth competitor), though credit goes to Pictometry, which uses [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Privacy, Search Engines, Security, national security
Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by William McGeveran
Sorry for my blogging absence — I am grading. (It would be easier if I used this technique, but I don’t.)
I’ve wanted for a while to post something about proposals to improve the database used to conduct background checks for gun purchases under the Brady Law. Last month’s tragic shootings at Virginia Tech demonstrated [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by William McGeveran
The Washington Post has published a powerful op-ed piece by the anonymous recipient of one of the FBI’s national security letters, who is prohibited by law from disclosing even the fact that he received one. National security letters (or “NSLs”) are the demands for information, issued without any requirement of judicial approval, that were [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, ISP, NSA, Privacy, Security, national security