Episode #14: Interview with Benjamin Wittes

Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: A Reuters story claims that researchers showed something bad about the way NSA influenced the Dual EC encryption standard; a civil libertarian academic who was part of the President's expert's group NSA published a candid assessment of the agency - almost all of it positive; and Yahoo! has finally been able to encrypt its back-office communications; this week in Reruns: LabMD's latest filing; the banks that sued Target's security assessor have had second thoughts; Microsoft's search of Hotmail to protect its property yields a guilty plea; and Google's struggle with the most famous ten-second video performance in history ends abruptly; The Onion Router doesn't really turn your messages into spoofed news stories (cool as that would be); Federal magistrates impose limits on computer search warrants as a condition of signing them. In our second half, we have an interview with Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog.