According to the New York Times, the President has decided to kill the existing NSA phone metadata program and come up with a substitute that leaves the metadata with the phone companies. The decision will limit the government’s ability to find older connections, since few companies hold records for three or more years; it
March 2014
Debating Snowden
For some reason, debates about Snowden are thick on the ground these days, and I’ve joined a couple of them. The most fun was the Oxford Union, which has been preparing future Parliamentarians (and Prime Ministers) all around the British Commonwealth since 1823. The Oxford Union debate was “This House would call Edward Snowden a…
Making sense of Bitcoin
With all of the hype and hyperbole surrounding bitcoin and the dizzying array of press coverage, it can be hard for companies to know where to start in evaluating the potential risks involved in making bitcoin a part of their business. Law360 published an article this week in which I make sense of it all…
Time for a change in the cybersecurity paradigm
Earlier today the Wall Street Journal’s Risk and Compliance Journal published an interview with me and Steve Chabinsky from Crowdstrike about cybersecurity. In the interview, Steve and I make the case that the current paradigm for protecting companies against cyberattacks isn’t working, and that fixing it involves focusing on aligning private sector and…