How Taiwan’s Manufacturing of Semiconductors Impacts the World
As the U.S. counts votes in the presidential election, The Cipher Brief is focusing on Taiwan and its near-term future amid a flurry of activity […] More
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China’s Paper Dragon
“This idea may be formulated as follows. The situation is better now than it was ten years ago; therefore ten years from now it will […] More
Fighting the Wrong Enemy, aka the Stalemate in Cybersecurity
Despite all the attention, cyberspace is far from secure. Why this is so reflects flawed technologies and conceptual weaknesses. The result is institutionalized stalemate. Two […] More
Piecemeal Measures Regulate Cyberspace
It is a problem for the U.S. that many of the core concepts that guide internet policy date to the 1990s. One such concept is […] More
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The Devil Was in the Details: The Failure of UN efforts in Cyberspace
Unsurprisingly, the fifth UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) ran into difficulties that proved fatal. Previous GGEs operated in a more favorable international climate. The […] More
Cipher Brief Expert View: Trump's Cyber Executive Order
The long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity is out. It’s not dramatic or surprising (perhaps because drafts have been floating around Washington for weeks), but it […] More
Laying Down a Marker
After much hand-wringing, the U.S. publicly admitted that the Russian government is interfering with the Presidential election. This was an open secret for weeks, but […] More
Space — No Longer a Sanctuary
One sign of how important space is to military operations, particularly U.S. military operations, is that the countries who are our most likely military opponents, […] More
Public Policy Tradeoff
When the Clinton Administration decontrolled encryption in the late 1990s after a long and acrimonious debate, it did so because it had decided that the […] More
The New Battlefield
It helps in thinking about the future of cyber war if we break it into two parts: the future of cyber and the future of […] More