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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange faces U.S. computer-hacking charge after arrest in London
From The Los Angeles Times: Paul Rosenzweig, a cybercrime expert and former Homeland Security official, said prosecutors have charged Assange with violating a 1984 cybersecurity law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “Journalists are not at…
Cybersecurity News Briefs
SHOULDN’T SOME ONE INVESTIGATE cybersecurity events to determine what happened, and how similar incidents might be prevented in the future? And with no effort to cast blame or judge whether the savings would justify the cost? There is an agency that…
Wyden, Cotton Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Protect Personal Devices and Accounts of Senators and Staff from Cyber Threats
March 27, 2019 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. and members of the Senate Intelligence Committee Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., today introduced a bipartisan bill to protect the personal electronic devices and accounts of senators and their…
Rearranging the Cyber Deck Chairs
It is a commonplace in government to substitute reorganization for rethinking at a more fundamental level. Tuesday’s Washington Post reports another instance of the phenomenon. It is a commonplace in government to substitute reorganization for…
Kaspersky Helps the NSA
Most Lawfare readers will be familiar with Kaspersky Labs, the Russian cybersecurity firm. Many American cyberspecurity experts (including Rick Ledgett, Nicholas Weaver, and me) have been skeptical about the firm, suspecting that its connections to…
Why press fears on Assange charges are premature
Reporters don’t get to break the law to create or investigate a story. “If you speed on the way to a story, you’re still speeding,” said Paul Rosenzweig, who teaches cybersecurity law at George Washington University School of Law. “You don’t get a…
Experts disagree on how to secure absentee votes
WASHINGTON, D.C.—If you look at the machines voters will use in many states, you might find the state of voting security disconcerting—even frightening. But if you want a real post-Halloween scare, check out how dozens of states let absentee voters…
Critical Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Market Failure
111 See Paul Rosenzweig, The Unpersuasiveness of the Case for Cybersecurity Regulation–An Introduction, LAWFARE BLOG (May 17, 2012, 12:35 PM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/unpersuasiveness-case-cybersecurity-regulation-%E2%80%93-introduction. In his…
New cyber deterrence bill drops
RECENTLY ON PRO CYBERSECURITY — Major tech and cyber firms committed to a pledge against helping government hacking. … The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said cyberattacks on the electric grid might be the most important issue…
The Next Step in Federal Cybersecurity? Considering an NTSB-Style Computer Safety Board
Report Summary As cybersecurity has become an critical issue, the question of how to address it at the federal level has become increasingly pressing. Federal responsibility for cybersecurity is currently distributed across federal agencies, with a…