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The Best Way To Stick It To Dictators, Help Dissidents, and Boost Privacy
It makes the Internet safer and allows people living under autocracy to get around government censors. But the FBI wants to break it.
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FBI Director Warns Lawmakers ISIS Is Using Encryption To Order Killings
'This is not your grandfather’s al-Qaida,' James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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How To Break Into the CIA’s Cloud on Amazon
Looking to steal America’s spy data from Amazon? Hope you’re up for a challenge.
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Someone Just Leaked The Price List for Cyberwar
A controversial cyber arms dealer gets hacked, revealing sales to the US military and less savory customers around the world.
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FBI Director: Encryption Is Great As Long As It Lets Us In
Ahead of Capitol Hill hearings, James Comey blogs that a good-guys-only backdoor would keep Americans safer than universal strong encryption.
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Home Depot Has Better Cyber Security Than 25 US Defense Contractors
New rankings raise questions about the extent to which cybersecurity is a shared responsibility between government agencies and contractors.
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Hillary Clinton Accuses China of Hacking 'Everything That Doesn't Move'
The former Secretary of State's criticisms come following a devastating breach at the Office of Personnel Management.
Ideas
What Fiction Can Tell You About a Future War With China
Strategists Peter Singer and August Cole’s new novel offers a glimpse into startling real-life U.S. military vulnerabilities.
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Pentagon, OPM Shut Down Background Check Systems
Two critical systems linking information from the DOD to OPM are being shuttered while vulnerabilities are fixed.
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After Historic Hack, OPM Chief's 15-Point Plan May Be Too Little, Too Late
In the wake of a major hack, agency director Katherine Archuleta outlined a series of steps to counter future breaches.
Threats
Video Chat Could Put US Advisors In ISIS Fight — Virtually
US troops confined to Iraqi bases may soon use FaceTime-like apps to help Iraqi soldiers on the battlefield.
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Cyber War Puts Democracies on the Defensive
Free countries must band together to fight off authoritarian states that can be more institutionally flexible, opaque, unaccountable, and corrupt.
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China Is the Leading Suspect in OPM Hack, US Says
The intelligence community thinks they know who stole the data. That doesn’t change much.
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Why Putin’s ICBM Announcement Does Not Signal a New Nuclear Arms Race
The Russian President’s announcement was entirely in line with previous expectations, and won’t add new capabilities to Moscow's arsenal.
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NSA Chief: Don’t Assume China Hacked OPM
Attribution, which came so quickly when North Korea hacked Sony, is proving trickier when China stands accused.
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The US Army Is Getting Futuristic Hoverbikes
A British company is bringing hover bikes stateside for commercial use—but not before the US Army gets their own version first.
Business
Pentagon Rushing to Open Space-War Center To Counter China, Russia
Prepping for war in orbit, the military is honing tactics and building a new center to coordinate defense and development.
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Robots Won't Be Taking These Military Jobs Anytime Soon
A chief Air Force scientist says that there’s no way to automate drone-based intelligence collection without a major technological breakthrough.
Threats
Pentagon Building Cruise Missile Shield To Defend US Cities From Russia
The military moves to set up an expensive sensor-and-shooter network, but is the threat real?
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