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War Plan Chat Includes Journalist
Journalists aren’t usually invited to online chats about US war plans. This seemed obvious until yesterday, when Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg published his article about being a lurker in an online chat ...
In Defense of Oversight – The President and the PCLOB
In late January 2025, President Trump fired the Democratically (big D) appointed members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent watchdog entity designed to provide input and oversight ...
The Mar-a-Lago Mess
I’ve avoided commenting on the FBI’s discovery of classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago Club, the home of former President Donald Trump, before this. Numerous pundits have shared their opinions about Trump’s legal ...
Trump, Ukraine, Crowdstrike and Servers – What Gives?
From 2015 through 2016, during the run-up to the presidential election, certain cloud servers used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were attacked and infiltrated by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors from ...
Risk of the Unsecured Presidential Phone
When President Trump meets with North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, it’s a good bet that at some point he’ll be sharing tweets about the event, written and sent on his smartphone. Most ...
