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The Messages the Federal Court of Appeals Sent to Congress and the Executive...
Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act does not authorize the NSA’s telephone metadata surveillance program. Since Edward Snowden disclosed it in June 2013, the...
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Taking Stock of Snowden’s Disclosures Two Years On
Last Friday marked the second anniversary of the start of Edward Snowden’s disclosures. The days preceding this anniversary highlighted Snowden’s continued prominence. On June 1, Section 215 of the USA...
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The OPM Hack: Weighing the Damage to U.S. Intelligence
I finally got my letter from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). What a relief. I was worried my credibility as a commentator would be damaged if my data wasn’t stolen. Imagine how Dan Rather...
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Espionage in the Digital Era: Lessons From the OPM Hack
Brandon Valeriano is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and recently published Cyber War versus Cyber Realities on Oxford University Press. Stephen Coulthart is a Senior Lecturer in the...
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Retaliating Against China’s Great Firewall
David Sanger has a very interesting article in Saturday’s New York Times, reporting that the United States has decided to retaliate against China for the hacking of the Office of Personnel Management....
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Avoiding Escalation in Cyberspace
Brandon Valeriano is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Ryan C. Maness is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northeastern University. They have recently published Cyber War versus Cyber...
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Quick Reactions to the U.S.-China Cybersecurity Agreement
After an all night sessions at the Marriot Wardman Park, the United States has emerged with a landmark cybersecurity agreement with China. The deal has three parts: China agrees to stop engaging in...
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U.S.-China Cyber Deal Takes Norm Against Economic Espionage Global
For years, the United States has argued that economic espionage by governments is wrong and should stop. The U.S. government became more vocal about this position as the Internet provided means for...
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The Top Five Cyber Policy Developments of 2015: United States-China Cyber...
Over the next few days, Net Politics will countdown the top five developments in cyber policy of 2015. Each policy event will have its own post, explaining what happened, what it all means, and its...
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China’s Strategic Support Force: The New Home of the PLA’s Cyber Operations?
Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. China’s military reforms, which have sped up since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, are making steady...
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After a Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Hacking, What’s Next for the...
Late Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced that Su Bin, a Chinese national living in Canada, had plead guilty to “participating in a years-long conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of...
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Reducing and Managing U.S.-China Conflict in Cyberspace
Two weeks ago, the Financial Times ran a story that suggested China was sticking by its September 2015 commitment to not engage in cyber-enabled economic espionage. It quoted officials from private...
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A Fancy Bear Finds Its Way Into the Middle Kingdom
Lorand Laskai, research assistant in the Asia studies program, and Alex Grigsby, assistant director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program, contributed to this post. Earlier this week, Chinese...
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Wikileaks and the CIA: What’s in Vault7?
On Tuesday, Wikileaks released a huge cache of documents it said were descriptions of CIA cyber tools used to break into smartphones, computers and internet-connected TVs. Wikileaks says the documents...
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Hacking Charges Against Russian FSB Officers: A Quick Reaction
This post was co-written with Alex Grigsby, assistant director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program. This morning, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of four people...
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