Today, however, the election process is vulnerable to manipulation by hostile powers. We know that (beyond social media manipulation) Russia quite brazenly hacked into the IT systems of political campaign committees and tried to gain access to data…
And yet I was reminded of it when reflecting on the first year of the Trump presidency because to separately evaluate conventional benchmarks apart from the extreme transgressions of decency is as impossible a task as asking Mrs. Lincoln to assess…
The latest instance of “what-aboutism” is the House Republican decision to open an investigation of the Uranium One transaction—the allegation that Hillary Clinton transferred control of 20% of America’s uranium mining output to a Russian company, in…
Our electoral infrastructure consists of two distinct pieces (or so it seems to me): a broader public context in which elections occur and a narrower system of election management. To date, almost everything we know about Russian electoral…
Key Takeaways Congressional House Republicans have introduced a proposal to make NIST responsible for cybersecurity audits across the government. The idea is flawed in many respects—most especially because asking NIST to do an audit is asking them to…
President Trump’s trip to Europe was not a complete failure — his speech in Poland struck me as reasonable and Presidential. But his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and their discussion on cybersecurity was not a shining moment.…
