My Writing by topic

(Please note, most headlines on the articles below were not chosen by me. Instead, they were written by another editor, as is standard practice in journalism.)

Intelligence

Featured
Robert Mueller’s Bigger Collusion Picture is Starting to Emerge

Slate magazine

Q & A With Citizen Lab on “Tainted Leaks” and Russia’s Disinformation Campaign

Just Security

You Should Care About Mass Surveillance, Even If You’ve Done Nothing Wrong

Just Security

Hacks Against Media Outlets Part of Broader Chinese Cyber Campaign

Foreign Policy

Spies are Hacking Us Through Our Limos

Foreign Policy

The U.S. Might be Buying Weapons With Enemy Access Built In

Foreign Policy

The NSA Can Hold Americans’ Communications for Years, Leaked Docs Say

Foreign Policy

How Will Investigators Sift Through All the Imagery of the Boston Marathon Bombings?

Foreign Policy

What Manafort’s Indictment May Tell Us About Russian Election Meddling

Just Security

How Well Did the Nunes Memo Answer the ‘5 Questions’?

Just Security

Russia and a Divided United States: What Comes After Trump?

Just Security

Kaveladze’s Writings: Called Media Coverage of Major Russian Crime Syndicate an “Ethnic Witch Hunt”

Just Security

The CIA’s New Guidelines for Handling Americans’ Information

Just Security

Africa’s Big Brother Lives in Beijing

Foreign Policy

DOD’s Huge Plan to Stop the Next Snowden Is Going to Take A While

Foreign Policy

Air Force’s New Idea for Spying on China: Swarms of Tiny Bug Drones

Foreign Policy

Of Course Hacktivists Will Respond if Snowden is Ever Caught

Foreign Policy

No More Kangaroo Courts If These Spy Bills Pass

Foreign Policy

Son of a Blackbird: The Pentagon Eyes New Stealth Spy Plane

Foreign Policy

Here’s How Foreign Spies Are Now Getting U.S. Weapons Tech

Foreign Policy

U.S., European Spooks Meet to Discuss PRISM Data Swap

Foreign Policy

NSA is Locking Server Room Doors to Prevent Another Snowden Affair

Foreign Policy

Snowden’s Revenge: Pentagon May Stop Sharing Info To Block The Leaks

Foreign Policy

China Has a New Propaganda Machine — and This One Can Fly

Foreign Policy

Cruise Missiles: Everyone’s Building Them

Foreign Policy

Map: The USSR’s Electronic Spy Posts Are Still Active, Eavesdropping on You

Foreign Policy

Pakistan’s Air Force Learned About the Bin Laden Raid on TV

Foreign Policy

Is this another secret drone base on the Arabian Peninsula?

Foreign Policy

Chinese Cyberspies Use PRISM (and Petraeus) As Bait

Foreign Policy

NSA Chief Says He Might Loosen Grip (a Tiny Bit) On Surveillance Dragnet

Foreign Policy

Cybersecurity

Featured
You Should Care About Mass Surveillance, Even If You’ve Done Nothing Wrong

Just Security

Hacks Against Media Outlets Part of Broader Chinese Cyber Campaign

Foreign Policy

Spies are Hacking Us Through Our Limos

Foreign Policy

The U.S. Might be Buying Weapons With Enemy Access Built In

Foreign Policy

The NSA Can Hold Americans’ Communications for Years, Leaked Docs Say

Foreign Policy

How Will Investigators Sift Through All the Imagery of the Boston Marathon Bombings?

Foreign Policy

The U.S. Senate Wants to Control Malware Like it's a Missile

Foreign Policy

Africa’s Big Brother Lives in Beijing

Foreign Policy

Icefog: The Hacker Crew Trying to Break Into Your Weapons

Foreign Policy

DOD’s Huge Plan to Stop the Next Snowden Is Going to Take A While

Foreign Policy

Of Course Hacktivists Will Respond if Snowden is Ever Caught

Foreign Policy

Even the White House Thinks This Secrecy Thing Is Out Of Control

Foreign Policy

Here’s How Foreign Spies Are Now Getting U.S. Weapons Tech

Foreign Policy

U.S., European Spooks Meet to Discuss PRISM Data Swap

Foreign Policy

NSA is Locking Server Room Doors to Prevent Another Snowden Affair

Foreign Policy

Snowden’s Revenge: Pentagon May Stop Sharing Info To Block The Leaks

Foreign Policy

Chinese Cyberspies Use PRISM (and Petraeus) As Bait

Foreign Policy

NSA Chief Says He Might Loosen Grip (a Tiny Bit) On Surveillance Dragnet

Foreign Policy

Red Star: Another advanced hacking crew from China is revealed

Foreign Policy

What happens when China hacks U.S. weapons designs?

Foreign Policy

DOD says don’t worry about hackers accessing key U.S. weapons designs

Foreign Policy

The White House: Cyber attacks against critical infrastructure are way up

Foreign Policy

A software flaw left DHS employees’ personal info vulnerable to thieves since 2009

Foreign Policy

The cyber security recommendations of Blair and Huntsman’s report on Chinese IP theft

Foreign Policy

China’s hackers are still at it; Iran’s are getting better

Foreign Policy

Aviation

Defense Industry

OSINT

Defense Tech archive

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Defense Tech Archive