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NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers told Congress on Monday that the “cyber dimension” was a key difference in the Russian active measures used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, compared to previously observed Russian activities in other elections.

Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone says he believes his contacts with a Russian-linked hacker who took credit for breaching the Democratic National Committee may have been obtained through a special warrant that allows the government to collect the communications of people suspected of being agents of a foreign nation.

The state Senate has passed dual bills aimed at preventing cyberattacks and terrorism at international business and commerce centers like New York City.

The four points of inquiry in the committee’s probe represent a bipartisan compromise, after Ranking Member Schiff openly criticized Nunes for his determination that intelligence would not show connections between Russia and Trump’s campaign.

Cyber continues to be a domain of warfare in which there are more questions than answers and in which defining the specific problems is as tricky as finding the solutions will prove to be.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s top spy chief, former GOP Sen. Dan Coats, said cyberwar will be one of the top threats facing the U.S. in the years to come, along with terrorism.

Part I explored legal issues and the implications of recent cases on encryption. Part II surveys recent developments in and the current state of encryption technology and policy.

The past year has seen significant developments in encryption technology, policy and legal cases. With a new presidential administration and Congress, it’s timely to consider the current state of encryption and what the future could hold.

Cybersecurity is a unique policy challenge because over 80 percent of U.S. information technology infrastructure is owned and operated by private entities, according to former CIA Director John Brennan. Yet cybersecurity vulnerabilities in these systems, networks and products could have national security implications.