In 2012, as I was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan, a mentor remarked to me that "there is never a good time to go to war."

How true.

Some projects you just need to start. They may not be perfect as they mature, but at least they have been started.

This website is a case in point. Ultimately I will be curating a lot of content that I have developed over the years in cyber law and privacy law, along with reflections and analysis of third-party content. And, of course, a lot of links that I hope will be helpful as you conduct research in this exploding area of the law.

Meantime, sit back and relax in the back of the C-17, and have a juice box of Kyrgyz pineapple juice. Enjoy. 

CYBER LAW

“Cyber” comes from the Greek κυβερνήτες, meaning steersman or governor.  I was taught this by one of my CISSP instructors, and it impressed me as one of those very cool cross-cultural connections we stumble across from time to time. (The transliteration is, of course, awful, as they all are, but that is a different topic for a different. day.)

Anyway, the definition makes sense.  If you appreciate that “cyber” is a meta reality beyond ours (think of the Tron movies), the cyber layer does steer many things in reality in a profound and leveraged way.

Cyber law is a convergence of many disciplines: technology, criminal law, privacy, intelligence oversight, the law of armed conflict.  In the military we regard cyber as a domain coequal with air, space, land and sea.  To really understand cyber law one needs to embrace this domain concept.  Once understood, the history and reasoning behind cyber law begins to make intuitive sense.