Alex Iftimie on the DOJ Disruption of the Hive Ransomware Group
On January 26, the Department of Justice held a press conference to announce its months-long disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group that has targeted more than 1,500 victims in over 80 ...
9 Feb 202332min
A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Social Media and the Insurrection
The Jan. 6 Committee released its final report on December 22, 2022—the capstone of a year and half of investigative work. But while the report is 800 pages, there’s a lot that it doesn’t include. The...
8 Feb 202356min
The Hacker's Mind
How does computer hacking work? When is it good, and when is it bad? And what does it have to teach us about law, politics, and inequality? These are some of the questions that Bruce Schneier, a well-...
7 Feb 202351min
It's Not Too Late to Deter China From Invading Taiwan
Last week, the United States and the Philippines reached an agreement to expand U.S. military operations in the Philippines to deter China's increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the So...
6 Feb 202330min
Chatter: M. Todd Bennett on the Secretive Story of the Glomar Explorer
A sunken Soviet submarine. A secret CIA plan to lift it from the bottom of the ocean with a giant claw. And reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. It sounds like the makings of a Netflix series—and it s...
5 Feb 20231h 21min
Lawfare Archive: Rashawn Ray on Police Violence
From June 3, 2020: Dr. Rashawn Ray is a David M. Rubenstein fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He's also an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, Coll...
4 Feb 202353min
The CLOUD Act Five Years Later
Next month will mark the five-year anniversary of the CLOUD Act, a foundational piece of legislation on cross-border data transfers and criminal investigations. Before he was a University of Minnesota...
3 Feb 202338min
“Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends,” with Linda Kinstler and Sam Moyn
Last December, a German court convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people in what the media called—once again—the last Nazi trial. After a...
2 Feb 202350min
