Rational Security: The “Giving Two Effs” Edition
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Naval Academy professor and cyberlaw expert Jeff "Two Effs" Kosseff to work through the week's big national security news stories, including:
- “Dox Populi.” Florida’s state legislature is the latest of several to propose laws requiring individuals involved in certain online activities to reveal their identities to the state. Are these requirements consistent with the First Amendment? What would they mean for civil society where they apply?
- “Recommend Forward.” The Biden administration has rolled out what some had previewed as a historic new cyber strategy. But it’s left some experts cold, in part because it seems to hinge on future enactments by a cooperative Congress—something that may not be in the cards. How revolutionary is it really?
- “Forget It, Jake. It’s the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.” The House select committee on China held its first hearing last week to much fanfare. How much is it a partisan political exercise? And to what degree might it actually steer U.S. policy on China in a better (or worse) direction?
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| 0:25.6 | or no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm John Emmons, intern at LawFair with an episode of Rational Security from March 12, 2023. |
| 0:43.0 | For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross-post this week's episode of Rational |
| 0:46.9 | Security, a podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson, Quintet Jurassic, and Alan Rosenstein in which |
| 0:52.3 | they cover the week's big national security news stories. |
| 0:55.4 | Today's episode is entitled Rational Security 2.0, the Giving 2 F's edition. |
| 1:00.3 | In the episode, Anderson, Torecic and Rosenstein were joined by Jeff Kossuf to discuss new |
| 1:05.1 | legislation in Florida requiring some internet users to disclose their identities to the |
| 1:08.9 | state. |
| 1:09.9 | The Biden administration's new national cybersecurity strategy, the House select whom |
| 1:13.8 | any on China's first hearing and more. |
| 1:16.5 | This is Rational Security. |
| 1:21.3 | Also for the benefit of our listeners who can't see the feed, Jeff behind you is a white |
| 1:28.3 | board. |
| 1:29.3 | If I'm reading it correctly, it has third amendment, ECPA, 12 triple three, FISA and 230 written |
| 1:36.3 | on it, which is just a popery of terrifying legal thickets. |
| 1:41.6 | What are you doing to your poor students in Annapolis? |
| 1:44.4 | Could be my book topics for the next few books. |
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