There’s a fine line between legislation addressing deepfakes and legislation that is itself a deep fake. Nate Jones reports on the only federal legislation addressing the problem so far. I claim that it is well short of a serious regulatory effort – and pretty close to a fake law. In contrast, India seems serious… Continue Reading
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Episode 284: A throuple can keep a secret – if a couple of them are dead
Posted in China, InternationalYou knew we’d go there. I talk about Congresswoman Katie Hill’s “throuple” pics and whether the rush to portray her as a victim of revenge porn raises questions about revenge porn laws themselves. Paul Rosenzweig, emboldened by twin tweets – from President Trump calling Never-Trumpers like him “human scum” and from Mark Hamill… Continue Reading
Episode 282: Has China opened a quantum hype lead over the US?
Posted in China, InternationalOur interview is with Sultan Meghji, CEO of Neocova. We cover the large Chinese investment in quantum technology and what it means for the United States. It’s possible that Chinese physicists are even better than American physicists at extracting funding from their government. Indeed, it looks as though some quantum tech, such as the… Continue Reading
Episode 281: Can the European Union order Twitter to silence President Trump?
Posted in China, European Union, International, Privacy RegulationToday’s episode opens with a truly disturbing bit of neocolonial judicial lawmaking from the Court of Justice of the European Union. The CJEU ruled that an Austrian court can order Facebook to take down statements about an Austrian politician. Called an “oaf” and a “fascist,” the politician more or less proved the truth of… Continue Reading
Episode 280: Challenging Edward Snowden
Posted in InternationalIn this episode I cross swords with John Samples of the Cato Institute on Silicon Valley’s efforts to disadvantage conservative speech and what to do about it. I accuse him of Panglossian libertarianism; he challenges me to identify any way in which bringing government into the dispute will make things better. I say government… Continue Reading
Episode 278: Will international trade law prevent the US from regulating the security of the Internet of Things?
Posted in International, Security Programs & PoliciesJoel Trachtman thinks it’s a near certainty that the WTO agreements will complicate US efforts to head off an IoT cybersecurity meltdown, and there’s a real possibility that a US cybersecurity regime could be held to violate our international trade obligations. Claire Schachter and I dig into the details of the looming disaster and… Continue Reading
Episode 274: Will Silicon Valley have to choose between end-to-end crypto and shutting down speech it hates?
Posted in AI, China, International, RussiaOur guests this week are Paul Scharre from the Center for a New American Security and Greg Allen from the Defense Department’s newly formed Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Paul and Greg have a lot to say about AI policy, especially with an eye toward national security and strategic competition. Greg sheds some light on… Continue Reading
Episode 270: China’s cyber offense comes of age
Posted in CFIUS, Cloud Computing, International, Security Programs & PoliciesThe theme this week is China’s growing confidence in using cyberweapons in new and sophisticated ways, as the US struggles to find an answer to China’s growing ambition to dominate technology. Our interview guest, Chris Bing of Reuters, talks about his deep dive story on Chinese penetration of managed service providers like HP Enterprise… Continue Reading
Episode 266: Will an end to social media trust mean an end to end-to-end encryption?
Posted in InternationalIf you’ve lost the Germans on privacy, you’ve lost Europe, and maybe the world. That’s the lesson that emerges from my conversation with David Kris and Paul Rosenzweig about the latest declaration that the German interior minister wants to force messaging apps to decrypt chats. This comes at the same time that industry and… Continue Reading
Episode 243: Tech World Turned Upside Down Down Under
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, InternationalIn the News Roundup, Nick Weaver and I offer very different assessments of Australia’s controversial encryption bill. Nick’s side of the argument is bolstered by Denise Howell, the original legal podcaster, with 445 weekly episodes of This Week in Law to her credit. Later in the program, I interview Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI), who’s… Continue Reading
Episode 230: Click Here to Kill Everybody
Posted in International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesWe are fully back from our August hiatus, and leading off a series of great interviews, I talk with Bruce Schneier about his new book, Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World. Bruce is an internationally renowned technologist, privacy and security commentator, and someone I respect a lot more… Continue Reading
The Cyberlaw Podcast — News Roundup
Posted in China, European Union, International, Privacy RegulationIn episode 212 of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker is at RSA, and Brian Egan, Maury Shenk, and Pete Jeydel of Steptoe are joined by David Kris and Nate Jones of Culper Partners LLC to cover the good, the bad and the ugly of the week that was. UK cyber issues: Brian, Maury, David and Nate… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Curtis Dukes and Tony Sager
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Security Programs & PoliciesEpisode 154: What cybersecurity experts tell their Moms about computer security In this week’s episode, we ask two acknowledged NSA cybersecurity experts, Curtis Dukes and Tony Sager, both from the Center for Internet Security, what they tell their family members about how to keep their computers, phones, and doorbells safe from hackers. Joining us for… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast — Interview with John “Four” Flynn, Heather Adkins, and Troels Oerting
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Security Programs & PoliciesIn this episode, Stewart Baker goes to RSA and interviews the people that everyone at RSA is hoping to sell to – CISOs. In particular, John “Four” Flynn of Uber, Heather Adkins of Google, and Troels Oerting of Barclays Bank. We ask them what trends at RSA give them hope for the future, which make… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Corin Stone
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy RegulationOur guest for episode 148 of the podcast is Corin Stone, the Executive Director of the National Security Agency. Corin handles some tough questions – should the new team dump PPD-28, how is morale at the agency after the Snowden and Shadowbroker leaks, and will fully separating Cyber Command from NSA mean new turf fights? … Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Matthew Green
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Security Programs & PoliciesVlad’s Botox Fresh off a redeye from Israel, I interview Matthew Green of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute. Security news from the internet of things grows ever grimmer, we agree, but I get off the bus when Matt and the EFF try to solve the problem with free speech law. In the news roundup,… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Scott Charney
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesWe ask Rihanna to sum up the latest US-EU agreement: And that’s when you need me there With you I’ll always share … You can stand under my umbrella RiRi’s got the theory right: The Umbrella Agreement was supposed to make sure the US and EU would always share law enforcement data. But when the… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Paul Rosenzweig and Shane Harris
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy RegulationWe couldn’t resist. This week’s topic is of course President-elect Trump and what his election could mean for All Things Cyber. It features noted cybercommentator Paul Rosenzweig and Daily Beast reporter Shane Harris. In the news, we’re reminded of the old Wall Street saying that bulls and bears can both make money in the market… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Ed Hammersla and Brian White
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesEpisode 126 – The podcast goes to the conventions If Vladimir Putin can do it, so can we. This week the podcast dives deep into the US presidential campaign. I of course talk with Maury Shenk about evidence that the Russians are behind “Guccifer 2.0” and the DNC data leak – aided by a Wikileaks… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Angelos Keromytis
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyEpisode 118 digs deep into DARPA’s cybersecurity research program with our guest, Angelos Keromytis, associate professor at Columbia and Program Manager for the Information Innovation Office at DARPA. Angelos paints a rich picture of a future in which we automate attribution across networks and international boundaries and then fuse bits of attribution data as though… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Dmitri Alperovitch
Posted in Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyRansomware is the new black. In fact, it’s the new China. So says our guest for episode 116, Dmitri Alperovitch, the CTO and co-founder of CrowdStrike. Dmitri explains why ransomware is so attractive financially – and therefore likely to get much worse very fast. He and I also explore the implications and attribution of the… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with General Hayden
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyOur guest for episode 114 is General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA; he also confirms that he personally wrote every word of his fine book, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror. In a sweeping interview, we cover everything from Jim Comey’s performance at the AG’s hospital… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Suzanne Spaulding
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesJust how sophisticated are the nations planning and carrying out cyberattacks on electric grids? Very, is the short answer. Our guest for episode 111, Suzanne Spaulding, DHS’s Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, lays out just how much planning and resources went into the attack on Ukraine’s grid, what it means for… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Perianne Boring
Posted in Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyIn episode 109, we interview Perianne Boring of the Chamber of Digital Commerce on the regulatory challenges of bitcoin and the blockchain. In the news roundup, we bring back Apple v. FBI for what we hope will be one last round, as the San Bernardino magistrate voids her All Writs Act motion for mootness and… Continue Reading