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358. Cybersecurity Issues on the Congressional Agenda

By Stewart Baker
April 19, 2021
Our interview is with Mark Montgomery and John Costello, both staff to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. The Commission, which issued its main report more than a year ago, is swinging through the pitch, following up with new white papers, draft legislative language, and enthusiastic advocacy for its recommendations in Congress, many of which were adopted last year. That makes it the most successful of the many cybersecurity commissions that have come and gone in…
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Episode 357: Conservative Catfight

By Stewart Baker
April 12, 2021
They used to say that a conservative was a liberal who’d been mugged. Today’s version is that a conservative who’s comfortable with business regulation is a conservative who’s been muzzled by Silicon Valley. David Kris kicks off this topic by introducing Justice Thomas’s opinion in a case over Trump’s authority to block users he didn’t like. The case was made thoroughly moot by both the election and Twitter’s blocking of Trump, but Justice Thomas wrote …
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Episode 356: Who Minds the Gap

By Stewart Baker
April 5, 2021
Our interview is with Kim Zetter, author of the best analysis to date of the weird messaging from NSA and Cyber Command about the domestic “blind spot” or “gap” in their cybersecurity surveillance. I ask Kim whether this is a prelude to new NSA domestic surveillance authorities (definitely not, at least under this administration), why the gap can’t be filled with the broad emergency authorities for FISA and criminal intercepts (they don’t fit, quite),…
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Episode 355: Can Editorial Middleware Cut the Power of the Big Platforms?

By Stewart Baker
March 30, 2021
Our interview this week is with Francis Fukuyama, a fellow and teacher at Stanford and a renowned scholar and public intellectual for at least three decades. He is the coauthor of the Report of the Working Group on Platform Scale. It’s insightful on the structural issues that have enhanced the power of platforms to suppress and shape public debate. It understands the temptation to address those issues through an antitrust lens – as well…
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Episode 354: The Xi-Hawley Global Consensus on Tech Platforms

By Stewart Baker
March 22, 2021
Our news roundup for this episode is heavy on China and tech policy. And most of the news is bad for tech companies. Jordan Schneider tells us that China is telling certain agencies, not to purchase Teslas or allow them on the premises, for fear that Elon Musk’s famously intrusive record-keeping systems will give US agencies insight into Chinese facilities and personnel. Pete Jeydel says the Biden administration is prepping to make the same determination…
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Episode 353: The Former Lingerie Salesman Who Has Putin’s Knickers in a Twist

By Stewart Baker
March 15, 2021
This week we interview Eliot Higgins, founder and executive director of the online investigative collective Bellingcat and author of We Are Bellingcat. Bellingcat has produced remarkable investigative scoops on everything from Saddam’s use of chemical weapons to exposing the Russian FSB operatives who killed Sergei Skripal with Novichok, and, most impressive, calling a member of the FSB team that tried to kill Navalny and getting him to confess. Eliot talks about the techniques that…
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Episode 352: A Lot of Cybersecurity Measures that Don’t Work, and a Few that Might

By Stewart Baker
March 8, 2021
We’re mostly back to our cybersecurity roots in this episode, for good reasons and bad. The worst of the bad reasons is a new set of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange servers. They’ve been patched, Bruce Schneier tells us, but that seems to have inspired the Chinese government hackers to switch their campaign from Stealth to Promiscuous Mode. Anyone who hasn’t already installed the Microsoft patch is at risk of being compromised today for exploitation tomorrow.…
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Episode 351: When will Cyberattacks on the Grid Become the New Normal?

By Stewart Baker
March 1, 2021
In the news roundup, David Kris digs into rumors that Chinese malware attacks may have caused a blackout in India at a time when military conflict was flaring on the two nation’s Himalayan This leads us to Russia’s targeting of the US grid and to uneasy speculation on how well our regulatory regime is adapted to preventing successful grid attacks. The Biden administration is starting to get its legs under it on cybersecurity. In its…
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Episode 350: NSA’s Pre-History is a Love Story

By Stewart Baker
February 22, 2021
This episode features an interview with Jason Fagone, journalist and author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies. I wax enthusiastic about Jason’s book, which features remarkable research, a plot like a historical novel, and deep insights into what I call NSA’s “pre-history” – the years from 1917 through 1940 when the need for cryptanalysis was only dimly perceived by…
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Episode 349: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

By Stewart Baker
February 16, 2021
Our interview this week is with Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times reporter and author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race. It’s wide-ranging, occasionally confrontational, and a great tour of the issues raised in the book about 0-day exploits, US responsibility for the global cyber arms race, and the colorful personalities whose hard choices helped shape the cybersecurity environment we all now live in. In…

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