03.13.13
Chinese cyberwar is stealing our wealth! It’s unprecedented!
The Washington Post, Not Ready for Cyberwar:
This is a worrisome facet of how the United States is entering the age of cyberconflict. President Barack Obama has signed off on a new doctrine, but it remains classified. There’s a new national intelligence estimate of cyber-espionage and its economic costs, but it remains under wraps.
From the New York Times:
It is imperative that nations come together to develop rules of engagement for cyberwar. These rules should:
• Protect a certain amount of critical infrastructure from attack;
• Declare botnets and irregular cyberforces as unlawful combatants;
• Prohibit countries from transmitting cyber-attacks through another country’s networks without permission; and
• Require countries to assist in the investigation of cyber-attacks.Jody R. Westby is the chief executive of Global Cyber Risk, a security consulting firm, and is the chairwoman of the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Computer Crime Committee. She is a co-author of “The Quest for Cyber Peace.”
The quest for cyber-peace. Global Cyber Risk, a collection all white
upper class career lawyers, some of whom have written legal papers and books on cybercrime nobody not paid to pay attention to would.
Specialties: global business development and risk management, shoeshine.
Partners: Ten other similar law firms.
The National Interest, “the new home for informed analysis and frank but reasoned exchanges on foreign policy and international affairs:”
During a recent off-the-record meeting, a senior government official warned that cyber attacks on United States in 2013 will be worse than they were in 2012, a year during which they reached a peak. (Participants were free to use what they were told, but not to disclose the names or venue).
Representatives of private corporations in the audience were told that there is not one whose computers have not been hacked. The official appealed to self interest (“you spend scores of millions on brand ‘D’ and someone else brings it to the market at a fraction of the cost, after stealing the fruits of your studies???), communitarian concerns (“don’t let your computers be used as a basis for attacking others???), and patriotism (“our systems are only one-third secure???). He pointed out that beyond stealing trade and defense secrets, computer hackers destroyed the data of the computers of Saudi Aramco, and warned that they could easily bring down our infrastructure, from the electrical grid to banking.