Interview with Michael Schmitt (Updated)




The Cyberlaw Podcast show

Summary: In our 162nd episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, Stephanie Roy, Alan Cohn, and Brian Egan discuss: this is what a risk-averse signals intelligence agency looks like: giving up intelligence to satisfy elite opinion; FCC’s plan for net neutrality emerges; this week in sex toy security: the FTC to the rescue?; remember this story the next time Silicon Valley says the government can’t be trusted with crypto keys because of Snowden; the Russians who hacked Clinton are going after Macron in France, says Trend Micro; this week in vigilante cybersecurity: Flexispy is doxed; Brickerbot secures the IOT by administering “Internet Chemotherapy”; our guest interview is with Michael Schmitt, Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, the US Naval War College, and the US Military Academy at West Point and a leader in the effort to articulate the law of armed conflict in cyberspace known as Talinn 2.0. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.