In an earlier post I talked about how the Chinese government has used its “Great Firewall” censorship machinery on an expanded list of targets – from its own citizens to ordinary Americans who happen to visit Internet sites in China. By intercepting the ad and analytics scripts that Americans downloaded from Chinese sites, the Chinese… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2015
The GitHub Attack, Part 1: Making International Cyber Law the Ugly Way
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesOver the past few years, the US government has invested heavily in trying to create international norms for cyberspace. We’ve endlessly cajoled other nations to agree on broad principles about internet freedom and how the law of war applies to cyberconflicts. Progress has been slow, especially with countries that might actually face us in a cyberwar…. Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Atlantic Council Panel
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesBonus Episode 78: Dmitri Alperovitch, Harvey Rishikof, Stewart Baker, and Melanie Teplinsky debate whether the United States should start doing commercial espionage I know, I know, we promised that the Cyberlaw Podcast would go on hiatus for the month of August. But we also hinted that there might be a bonus episode. And here it… Continue Reading