Jim Dempsey on Standards for Software Liability
Software liability has been dubbed the “third rail of cybersecurity policy.” But the Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy directly takes it on, seeking to shift liability onto those ...
24 Jan 20241h 4min
Shoba Pillay and Jennifer Lee on the SEC SolarWinds Enforcement Action
The fallout from the SolarWinds intrusion took a new turn with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to file a cybersecurity-related enforcement action against the SolarWinds corp...
23 Jan 202437min
Waxman and Ramsey on Delegating War Power
There is much debate among academics and policy experts over the power the Constitution affords to the president and Congress to initiate military conflicts. But as Michael Ramsey and Matthew Waxman, ...
22 Jan 202451min
Rational Security: The “Three-Ring Circus” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds to talk through some big stories at the intersection of pol...
21 Jan 20241h 15min
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Still Waiting on the D.C. Circuit
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on January 18 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes and Lawfare Senior Editors Qu...
20 Jan 20241h 15min
Lawfare Archive: About That Border Wall
From January 28, 2017: President Trump kicked off the first foreign policy crisis of his new administration by signing an executive order mandating the construction of the much-promised border wall wi...
20 Jan 202437min
Justin Sherman on the FTC Settlement with Location Data Broker X-Mode
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with location data broker X-Mode Social. X-Mode collects over 10 billion location data points from all over the world every day, and ...
19 Jan 202442min
Chatter: Nuclear Launch Authority in Myth and Reality, with Hans Kristensen
Lloyd Austin's hospitalization and delayed communication about it have spurred much commentary and questions about the role of the secretary of defense in the US nuclear-strike chain of command.David ...
18 Jan 202455min
