R Street Leads Group of Over 150 former national security officials warning of risks in Biden transition delay
We write to urge you to promptly name Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the apparent President-elect and Vice President-elect under the Presidential Transition Act (the “Act”). We are former national security, senior military, and elected officials,…
Gloves Come Off as Trump, Biden Talk Foreign Policy
“Digital intimidation is of only modest importance,” said Paul Rosenweig, Resident Senior Fellow for National Security & Cybersecurity at R Street Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank. “What it really is more about is activation in the real…
Trusted Hardware and Software: An Annotated Bibliography
How, if at all, can users be confident that the systems on which they rely will function as they are supposed to? In a world of growing dependence on technology, consumers of information and communications technology (ICT) goods face an increasingly…
The Department of Homeland Security is broken. Here’s what it needs in a boss.
Before both parties had finished their conventions, speculation had already begun about the nature of the Cabinet in the next administration. Oddly, much of that speculation ignores the Department of Homeland Security. Perhaps it’s because nobody…
The Law and Policy of Client-Side Scanning
The idea—which aims to develop systems to scan photographs and messages before they are sent or received by users—is attractive, but it has far too many technical, legal and policy uncertainties to be ripe for adoption at this time. In recent years,…