Why the #TikTok deal doesn't do much to make Americans safer from foreign espionage; instead, it made the problem worse.
My interview with Harvard Law Today. @hls.harvard.edu
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The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
Not to mention wildly inconsistent with a mountain of evidence concerning the original understanding of the Fourth Amendment, which was all about suing officials for unreasonable searches and seizures.
US Representative @amo.house.gov said, “Trump’s army of authoritarian masked men have once again shot and killed an American citizen exercising their First Amendment rights. This is not law enforcement; it is brutalization of our communities meant to make us afraid."
A moment of silence for the loss of Ella Cook & Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, two promising bright lights whose lives were tragically cut short by a mass-shooter. And a moment of solidarity with the entire Brown University, Providence, and Rhode Island community.
The "embarrassing, scandalous coda" of the Supreme Court's TikTok decision--new from @evelyndouek.bsky.social and me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
FBI wiretap notices in misuse of campaign funds in California show the importance of notice as a constitutional protection for electronic searches, even as they make Sacramento insiders nervous, I tell @straightarrownews.bsky.social @danlevincomedy.bsky.social san.com/cc/californi...
[Timothy Edgar] said the outage was “another alarming example of how dependent we have become on critical internet infrastructure, and how little the government is doing to hold big companies accountable.”
“Cloudflare is an essential company, providing services to a fifth of the internet and handling literally trillions of requests every day,” said Timothy Edgar, a computer science professor at Brown and an expert on cybersecurity.
I spoke with the @nytimes.com today about the @cloudflare.social outage. It's past time for Congress looks at the issue. Coming just after @awscloud.bsky.social and @azure.microsoft.com, our hands-off approach to Big Tech is becoming a national security liability. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...
"Encryption is a human right, and it's a bird right too." Celebrating Global Encryption Day with @josephhall.org & his parrot.
Is the internet too dependent on AWS? Experts weigh in — @timothy-edgar.bsky.social told ABC News that relying on only a few major big tech cloud providers creates significant infrastructure vulnerabilities.
To call this administration a clown show would be to insult clowns, many of whom are highly trained professionals, unlike these absolute clueless amateurs.
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Brown responds.
A must read! My students have been reading for years.
Cybersecurity and privacy technology offer better solutions. Courts and lawmakers should do better!
Tl/dr: more control and less freedom online, as the justices decide to prioritize potential harms in uphold a ban on TikTok and age verification for accessing pornography.
My take on what the Supreme Court's term means for the internet, in Harvard Law Today (scroll down to Timothy Edgar, Lecturer on Law). hls.harvard.edu/today/evalua...
Identity/credential services should not be snooping on us. #nophonehome
It’s a special honor to be among those receiving honorary degrees from Brown. It’s a place that welcomed me and shaped me and challenged me and liberated me, and made possible everything that came after. I’m looking forward to celebrating this weekend with friends.
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With renewed relevance, this explainer I wrote last month:
Signal Gate: The Criminal Law Precedents That Are Most Relevant
The key legal issues are:
--> 18 U.S.C. 793(f)(1) of the Espionage Act - gross negligence
--> Destruction of government records
In a last-minute switch, the #CISA said it will continue funding a contract for #MITRE to manage the CVE program and other vulnerability databases. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/cisa-reverse...
Facebook whistleblower testimony on Mark Zuckerberg's cooperation with CCP shows why Congress was wrong to focus exclusively on TikTok when US and other Big Tech companies play footsie with China in service of the bottom line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zzx...
Some riveting testimony from a whistleblower on Facebook's detailed cooperation with CCP censorship even as Mark Zuckerberg was denying this before Congress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zzx...
Terrific for Maine!
Principals Committee. It's the highest level in the National Security Council below the President.
