Cyber & Technology
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency: Stop It Before It Starts
Nicholas Weaver Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 5:05 PM
Libra will enable cybercriminals if it succeeds. Regulators should stop it “left of launch.”
Nicholas Weaver is a senior staff researcher focusing on computer security at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and a lecturer in the Computer Science department at the University of California at Berkeley. All opinions are his own.
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Secrecy & Leaks
Thoughts on the Assange Indictment: Where’s Vault 7?
Nicholas Weaver Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 3:29 PM
Now that the U.S. government appears to have decided that no additional charges will be filed against Julian Assange, it’s worth asking why the indictment doesn’t include anything about WikiLeaks’s release of information on CIA hacking tools.
Cybersecurity
The GCHQ’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process
Nicholas Weaver Mon, Jun 3, 2019, 2:53 PM
The GCHQ’s disclosure of the “BlueKeep” vulnerability offers an opportunity for the U.S. to learn from how the British handle the question of vulnerabilities equities.
China
The Technical Consequences of Trump’s Telecom Supply Chain Emergency
Nicholas Weaver Wed, May 22, 2019, 2:16 PM
The president wanted to let the Commerce Department cut Huawei off from U.S. components. His order may do quite a bit more.
Cyber & Technology
A Risk Analysis of Huawei 5G
Nicholas Weaver Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 1:35 PM
What a country needs to consider before buying Huawei 5G equipment.
Secrecy: Wikileaks
The WikiLeaks Case Is Just Beginning
Nicholas Weaver Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 10:13 AM
The failed extraditions of hackers Lauri Love and Gary McKinnon suggest that the U.S. may have its work cut out for it in extraditing Julian Assange.
Cybersecurity
The U.S. Government Needs to Better Immunize Itself From Supply-Chain Attacks
Nicholas Weaver Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 8:04 AM
True or not, Bloomberg’s recent stories about Chinese supply-chain attacks should sound the alarm for the government to shore up its procurement policies.