Recently, mail-in voting has been under the media spotlight. Due to the COVID-19 pan- demic, demands for mail-in voting are expected to be significantly higher for this election. Political elites on both sides of the aisle have been busily reacting to this trend.
When authoritarian regimes are faced with increasing protests and unrest within their domestic populations the blocking and throttling of a nation’s Internet is an all too common occurrence. Recent days have seen a bevy of reports that the Belarusian government of Alexander Lukashenko, having engaged in suspected election manipulations on a massive scale, is now using its power over local Internet Service Providers and domestic networked infrastructures to shut and slow down the means of by which citizens mobilize in mass against their governments.
TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing social networking service has risen in global prominence in recent years to a user base of more than 800 million. There are more than 40 million U.S. TikTok users. The Trump administration has declared TikToK to be national security threat. Most security analysts have found this not to be the case.
Aaron Franklin Brantly University of Georgia Press, 2016, 226 pp. Reviewed by Dr. John G. Breen Distinguished Chair for National Intelligence Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and CIA Representative to the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center “The… Read More »Book Review: The Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making
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Soldiers are down range and have suites of tools available to them that they cannot use to their full capability. They are not technically limited, but rather constrained by the authorities and pre-requisite policies established in a pre-digital age. We… Read More »Enter the Policy and Legal Void
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