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Paul Rosenzweig
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Countering Harmful Content: A Research Agenda
The steady stream of disinformation and harmful content within the online information ecosystem is nearing a flood stage. To date, efforts to ameliorate the scourge…
What To Expect With Cyber Surprise
You can’t predict a surprise. But, the degree of surprise often varies. Some, like the attack on Pearl Harbor, are deep strategic surprises (for the…
Rethinking the Homeland Security Enterprise
The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America passed in Sept. 2021. The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Homeland…
Christmas in the Trenches: 2021
As is my annual custom, I offer you this song. My thanks to all those who serve our country at home and abroad. It is…
Legal Ethics, Bar Discipline and John Eastman
In the aftermath of the November 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection, attention is increasingly being paid to the role lawyers played in the…
The Cyber Monoculture Risk
Nature, they say, abhors a vacuum. It also abhors a monoculture. That’s because monocultures are a formula for catastrophic failure. Yet the U.S. federal government…
The IANA Transition at Five
Just five years ago, in September 2016, a significant change in the operation of the internet occurred. Known as the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)…
Apple Client-Side Scanning Takes A Pause
It is a truism that bad news drops on Fridays, timed to fly under the radar. The Friday before Labor Day is especially auspicious for…
The Apple Client-Side Scanning System
Washington, D.C.’s cyber policy summer was disrupted earlier in August by an announcement from Apple. In an effort to stem the tide of child sexual…
Is It Really 85 Percent?
Every time a piece of critical infrastructure is stressed by a cyber incident, the public conversation inevitably includes some discussion of the need for a…