Riana Pfefferkorn on End-to-End Encryption for iPhone Backups to iCloud
Last week, Apple made an announcement about some new security features it would be offering to users. One of those features involves users' ability to opt in to encryption for iPhone backups to iCloud...
14 Joulu 202253min
“Corrupt Obstruction” Before the D.C. Circuit
On Monday, the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument in the case United States v Fischer—one of the most important cases we've seen in a while relating to criminal prosecutions for the Jan. 6 attack on the...
13 Joulu 202235min
A Member of Meta’s Oversight Board Discusses the Board’s New Decision
When Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen shared a trove of internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal in 2021, some of the most dramatic revelations concerned the company’s use of a so-ca...
12 Joulu 202246min
Rational Security 2.0: The “Dork at 4pm” Edition
This week on Rational Security 2.0, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were reunited after a few weeks apart to talk through the week's big national security news, including:“In the Land of the Blind, the One-Ey...
11 Joulu 20221h 11min
Lawfare Archive: Identifying and Exploiting the Weaknesses of White Supremacist Groups
From April 14, 2021: A lot of people are expressing anxiety about white supremacist violent terrorism, yet in a new Brookings paper entitled "Identifying and Exploiting the Weaknesses of the White Sup...
10 Joulu 202242min
Alan Rozenshtein Says the Slope Isn’t That Slippery
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the case of Blassingame v. Trump, an appeal from a civil lawsuit against the former president over Jan. 6. The question before the ...
9 Joulu 202237min
Dissecting the Oral Arguments in Moore v. Harper
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what may be the biggest case of the term: Moore v. Harper. In that case, North Carolina’s state legislature is arguing that the state Supreme Co...
8 Joulu 202251min
Regulating AI with Alex Engler
Earlier this fall, the Biden administration released what it called a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a policy document that lays out a five-pillar strategy for how the United States intends to ...
7 Joulu 202243min
