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Articles by Paul Rosenzweig
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The Cybersecurity 202: Dominion lawsuit could be just start of legal action against Trump allies
Dominion Voting Systems is suing pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for more than $1.3 billion in damages, according a lawsuit filed in D.C. federal court by the company Friday. The company says that Powell has caused significant damage to its reputation…
The Parler Breach and the Capitol Rioters
This piece has been updated. Nobody needs a summary of the events of last week. The seditious insurrection in the Capitol will live in American memory for many years to come. As Congress turns its attention to presidential accountability, the U.S.…
Investigating American Presidents
The Great Courses, The Teaching Company The president of the United States of America can shape not just a nation but the entire world. But what limits are there—if any—on presidential power? How do we keep such awesome authority in check? And who do we trust to...
Chinese Technology Platforms Operating in the United States
JOINT REPORT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND LAW WORKING GROUP AT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE TECH, LAW & SECURITY PROGRAM AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW In the fall of 2020, the Trump administration issued...
‘More of an Art Than a Science:’ Behind the Government’s Effort To Measure Cybersecurity
“There’s no generally accepted, widely usable, scaleable, transparent way to measure cybersecurity,” said Paul Rosenzweig, a former Department of Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary for policy and senior fellow at the R Street Institute.…
More of an Art Than a Science:’ Behind the Government’s Effort To Measure Cybersecurity
A dirty little secret of cybersecurity is that no one really knows how to measure it. And that means there’s no perfect way for companies to decide how much they need to invest in security, and no straightforward, objective method for comparing two…
Code Review: Making Space for More Voices in Cybersecurity
The world could benefit from more collaboration between experts as diverse as the cybersecurity challenges we face. This is the basis for the R Street Institute’s new campaign, “Making Space,” which is a pledge to ensure that expert voices from…
Barr shielded Trump from Congress, Mueller and the law, but couldn’t save him from voters
Nearly 500 years ago, King Henry VIII sacked his most loyal courtier, Thomas Cromwell, removing him from office and then beheading him. Today, Attorney General William Barr suffers the same Cromwellian fate, his sycophantic fealty to President Donald…
The Cybersecurity 202: Chris Krebs found another way to defend election after his firing: Suing the Trump campaign
Rosenzweig described the lawsuit as “not a slam dunk winner, but certainly a lot less outrageous than Sidney Powell’s Kraken suits,” a reference to a series of error-ridden lawsuits from a Trump-allied lawyer alleging widespread electoral fraud,…
Don’t Politicize Our Election Process
One of us has observed the first democratic elections in countries like Chile, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine — never thinking that our country would cease to be the model to emulate. The other of us has served as a…