Does the NYT Publish "All the News That's Fit to Print" Anymore?
NYT's ombud, Margaret Sullivan, dedicated her column today to whether the NYT should have done a story on The Intercept's drone package a few weeks back. She concludes that given the NYT's extensive coverage of this issue, it's reasonable they…
Football and F1 Trash Talk
No catchy title this week, but we do have some fantastic sports on tap. Football, World Series baseball, and the F1 Circus all right here in the USA. So let's get to it.
Football: In the college ranks, the most significant game is arguably…
Jim Comey Describes the Dangerous Chilling Effect of Surveillance (But Only for Cops)
For at least the second time, Jim Comey has presented himself as a Ferguson Effect believer, someone who accepts data that has been cherry picked to suggest a related rise in violent crime in cities across the country (I believe that in Ferguson…
Is CISA the Upstream Cyber Certificate NSA Wanted But Didn't Really Get?
I've been wracking my brain to understand why the Intel Community has been pushing CISA so aggressively.
I get why the Chamber of Commerce is pushing it: because it sets up a regime under which businesses will get broad regulatory immunity…
The Administration Statement on CISA
I wanted to analyze the Administration's statement on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing Act, which I've reproduced in its entirety below. Opponents of the bill feel the statement betrays Obama's stated (though usually not performed) commitment…
CISA Update: Cloture Passed, Masters of the Universe and Sheldon Whitehouse Agree on Compromise
This morning, the Senate voted in favor of cloture on the new (this morning) manager's amendment on CISA.
Here's the roll call, which was a blowout. Votes against cloture were:
Baldwin (WI)
Booker (NJ)
Brown (OH)
Coons (DE)
Franken…
Hacking John Brennan, Hacking OPM
In Salon, I've got my take on the hack of John Brennan's AOL account by a 13-year old stoner.
While I think it sucks that WikiLeaks posted unredacted data on Brennan's family, I'm not at all sympathetic to Brennan himself. After all he's…
The Pro-Scrub Language Added to CISA Is Designed to Eliminate DHS' Scrub
I've been comparing the Manager's Amendment (MA) Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein introduced Wednesday with the old bill.
A key change -- one Burr and Feinstein have highlighted in their comments on the floor -- is the integration of…
Sheldon Whitehouse's Horrible CFAA Amendment Gets Pulled -- But Will Be Back in Conference
As I noted yesterday, Ron Wyden objected to unanimous consent on CISA yesterday because Sheldon Whitehouse's crappy amendment, which makes the horrible CFAA worse, was going to get a vote. Yesterday, it got amended, but as CDT analyzed, it remains…
CISA Moves: A Summary
This afternoon, Aaron Richard Burr moved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing Act forward by introducing a manager's amendment that has limited privacy tweaks (permitting a scrub at DHS and limiting the use of CISA information to cyber crimes that…
The Great Transformation Part 3: Neoliberalism Before It Got Its New Name
Previous posts in this series:
The Great Transformation: Mainstream Economics and an Introduction to a New Series
The Great Transformation Part 1: The Market
The Great Transformation Part 2: More on Markets
The text for this…
Fred Upton's Bid at Protecting Automotive Security Negligence [Updated]
I've written about Ed Markey's SPY Act, one of several efforts to respond to network insecurity in cars. Fred Upton, who represents Kalamazoo, MI, is pushing an alternative version as part of larger reform to the National Highway Traffic Safety…
CloudStrike's Own Announcement Makes It Clear It Doesn't Have Proof of Ongoing Chinese Economic Cyberattacks
Many many many outlets are reporting that China has continued conducting economic espionage even after Xi Jinping agreed to stop doing it. They base that claim on this post from CloudStrike, a big cybersecurity contractor that spends a lot of…
The Financial Services Roundtable Wants to Terrify You into Giving Them More Immunity
The policy discussion about the many ways that the Cyber Information Sharing Act not only doesn't do much to prevent the hacking of public and private networks, but in key ways will make it worse, must be making its mark. Because the Financial…
Down The Line Trash
This post is by bmaz, moved on top of the stub I posted while he slept.
Yawwwn. I would not even be up right now and making the trash, but for a very real fear Marcy would again post up her beloved Tom Brady soft porn video. But that fear…
The Wayne Simmons Operation
In August 2008, in the waning days of Bush Administration, GOP hack Wayne Simmons got a job with a Defense Contractor (I'm not sure, but it may be BAE Systems) to serve as a Human Terrain System team Leader. He told the contractor he had worked…
While They're Replacing John Boehner, the GOP Should Replace Devin Nunes, Too
In a profile in Politico, Justin Amash* makes the case that the Freedom Caucus' rebellion against John Boehner isn't so much about ideology, it is about process.
Republican leaders see Freedom Caucus members as a bunch of bomb-throwing ideologues…
The Tech Industry Worries CISA Will Allow Other Companies to Damage Their Infrastructure
The Computer and Communications Industry Association -- a trade organization that represents Internet, social media, and even some telecom companies -- came out yesterday against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing Act, an information sharing bill…
FBI Caught Their ISIS Hacker by Tracking His Signed Email to His Signed Facebook and Twitter Accounts
The FBI just charged an Albanian hacker living in Malaysia, Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, with stealing the Personally Identifiable Information of over 1,000 service members and subsequently posting that PII online to encourage people to…
Obama's Extends Forever War in Afghanistan before MSF Report Comes Out
President Obama, as you've likely heard, just announced an extension of the Afghan mission. He insists combat operations in Afghanistan are over. He insists the role of the "train, advise, assist" advisors on the ground won't change. Our troops…