Jim Baker is a contributing editor at Lawfare and the Director of the National Security and Cybersecurity Program at the R Street Institute. He is also the former general counsel of the FBI. The views expressed here are his own and not necessarily those of any current or former employer.
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Better understanding of user-controlled encryption and quantum computing will improve conversations about what comes next for securing data.
The former general counsel of the FBI writes that he has come to believe that the best approach for him regarding President Trump—the only approach—is love.
The United States cannot fall behind China in 5G implementation. But that implementation will bring with it substantial national security, cybersecurity and privacy risks.
Three compliments and three concerns.
Details of the interactions show why contacts between the president and the top officials investigating his White House were risky for all involved.
Some experts view AI as neither artificial nor intelligent—just computer code.
How might adversaries apply AI to the vast amount of data that they collect about American to understand us, predict what we will do and manipulate our behavior in ways that advantage them?