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Stewart A. Baker is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. He returned to the firm following 3½ years at the Department of Homeland Security as its first Assistant Secretary for Policy. He earlier served as general counsel of the National Security Agency.

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The Cyberlaw Podcast

The Cyberlaw Podcast: Nobody Trolls Like the Russians

Stewart Baker   Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 11:21 AM

This episode features an interview with Michael Tiffany, the co-founder and president of White Ops and a deep student of how to curtail adtech fraud. Michael explains the adtech business, how fraudsters take advantage of its structure, and what a coalition of law enforcement and tech companies did to wreck one of the most successful fraud networks, known as 3ve.

The Cyberlaw Podcast

The Cyberlaw Podcast: You’ll Never Know How Evil a Technology Can be Until the Engineers Deploying it Fear for Their Jobs

Stewart Baker   Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 11:05 AM

I propose this episode’s title as Baker’s Law of Evil Technology, something that explains Twitter’s dysfunctional woke-ness, Yahoo’s crappy security and Uber’s deadly autonomous vehicles. Companies with lots of revenue can afford to offer a lot of stuff they don’t much care about, including protection of minority voices; security; and, um, not killing people.

The Cyberlaw Podcast

The Cyberlaw Podcast: If Paris Calls, Should We Hang Up?

Stewart Baker   Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 5:07 PM

Mieke Eoyang joins us for the interview about Third Way’s “To Catch a Hacker” report. We agree on the importance of what I call “attribution and retribution” as a way to improve cybersecurity. But we disagree on some of the details. Mieke reveals that this report is the first in a series that will hopefully address my concerns about a lack of detail and innovation in the report’s policy prescriptions.

The Cyberlaw Podcast

The Cyberlaw Law Podcast: The Ministry of Silly Talk

Stewart Baker   Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 4:59 PM

This week’s interview is a deep (and long—over an hour) dive into new investment review regulations for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It’s excerpted from an ABA panel discussion on the topic, featuring: Tom Feddo, who currently oversees CFIUS; Aimen Mir, who used to oversee CFIUS; Sanchi Jayaram, who is in charge of the Justice Department’s CFIUS and Team Telecom work; David Fagan, a noted CFIUS practitioner; and me as moderator.

The Cyberlaw Podcast

The Cyberlaw Podcast: Bold Prediction Episode: Foreign Governments Will Not Hack This Election

Stewart Baker   Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 2:25 PM

This episode puts our experts on the spot with an election-eve question: Will foreign governments attack US electoral rolls or vote-counting machinery in 2018? Remarkably, no one on our panel (Matthew Heiman, Nick Weaver, David Kris, and I) thinks they will. So if you want cybersecurity news, you can stop listening to election coverage and tune in to Episode 238 of The Cyberlaw Podcast.

The Cyberlaw Podcast

The Cyberlaw Podcast: Twitterlaw and the Khashoggi Killing

Stewart Baker   Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 10:12 AM

In this episode’s interview we ask whether the midterm elections are likely to suffer as much foreign hacking and interference as we saw in 2016. The answer, from Christopher Krebs, Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate (soon to be the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), is surprisingly comforting, though hardly guaranteed. Briefly, it’s beginning to look as though the Russians (and maybe the Iranians) are holding their fire for the main event in 2020.