The burden on Donald Trump (Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/11/14/the-burden-on-donald-trump/

Trump and the powers of the American presidency (Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/11/14/trump-and-the-powers-of-the-american-presidency/

Sextortion and the going dark debate (Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)

One interesting feature of the sextortion research we released this week—a feature we did not discuss in the papers themselves—is the interaction between this issue and the “going dark” debate. We left this matter out of the papers themselves because the papers were about sextortion as a phenomenon and possible solutions to the problems it poses. But a relatively large group of cases involving both large numbers of text messages (sent by various means on different services) and huge volumes of stored communications and images offers an interesting set of opportunities to look at how “dark” law enforcement really is going

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/05/23-sextortion-going-dark-debate-wittes

Sextortion as cybersecurity: Defining cyber risk too narrowly (Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)

When we think of cybersecurity, we don't think of sexual violence. Sexual assault, rape, and child molestation are problems of intimate contact between individuals in close proximity to one another. By contrast, we tend think of cybersecurity as a problem of remote attacks that affect governments, major corporations, and—at an individual level—people with credit card numbers or identities to steal

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/05/17-sextortion-as-cybersecurity-wittes

Brookings scholars answer questions about Apple, the FBI, and "Going Dark" (Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)

On February 23, Brookings scholars Susan Hennesey and Benjamin Wittes answered questions about the Apple iPhone encryption case in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the forum website Reddit. Earlier this month, Apple refused to comply with a court order filed by the FBI demanding technical assistance with bypassing the security measures on an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters. Hennessey and Wittes had previously written about the case on the Lawfare blog. The following is an excerpt of the AMA: following Reddit’s format, responses are indented and the original text remains unedited.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/02/24-apple-fbi-going-dark-ask-me-anything-hennessey-wittes