Tag: National Security Agency
Was the coronavirus outbreak an intelligence failure?
Erik J. Dahl, Naval Postgraduate School
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, it’s clear that having better information sooner, and acting more quickly on...
Intelligence whistleblowers often pay a severe price
Jennifer M. Pacella, Indiana University
When President Donald Trump likened a whistleblower’s White House sources to spies and made a lightly veiled reference to execution,...
Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The people of Baltimore are beginning their fifth week under an electronic siege that has prevented residents from...
Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked
Susan Landau, Tufts University
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologies for 25...
Why Trump’s White House leaks
Frederic Lemieux, Georgetown University
According to the Washington Post, President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
