Decentralized Cyberattack Attribution
Abstract Attribution of state-sponsored cyberattacks can be difficult, but the significant uptick in public attributions in recent years has proven that attrib…
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Britain has plunged into Brexit chaos. Here are the key facts.
Over the past few days, Britain has entered into a major political crisis. Negotiators for the Conservative Party government made a deal with European Union neg…
The U.S. often takes hostages in trade fights. They usually aren’t live human beings
The United States, like other countries, frequently uses the tactic of hostage taking in trade disputes. When it imposes punitive tariffs against another countr…
Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
By Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is nothing that persuades quite like an audio or video recording of an…
Rudy Giuliani is Trump’s cybersecurity adviser. He might want a refresher
n 2017, Rudolph W. Giuliani was named as a cybersecurity adviser to President Trump. This was widely seen as a consolation prize. Giuliani had been in charge of…
Motion to Unseal Court Records Concerning US DOJ Motion to Compel Facebook
Motion to unseal the docket and court's legal reasoning in a sealed case wherein the Department of Justice allegedly sought to compel Facebook to comply wit…
Citizens feel disconnected from government. If they knew what government did for them, they wouldn’t
Suzanne Mettler is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the department of government at Cornell University. She is also the author of a new…
Supplemental Letter to PJCIS regarding Assistance and Access Bill
Letter to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding a proposed "compromise" version of the Assistan…
Facilitating Wider Access to Europe’s Cultural Heritage in the Digital Environment: Opinion of the CEIPI on the European Commission’s Copyright Reform Proposal, with a Focus on Access to Out-of-Commerce Works
Abstract The Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market aims at facilitating wider access to Europe’s cultural heritage through the int…
The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia
On November 4, 2016, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” a front for Russia’s military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use…
Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy
Abstract Existing approaches to cybersecurity emphasize either international state-to-state logics (such as deterrence theory) or the integrity of individual i…
Supplemental Comments to Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) on the Assistance & Access Bill 2018
Supplemental comments submitted to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) on the revised draft (20 September 2018 ve…