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Starting an International Cybersecurity Conversation

crimeandpunishment writes "Every government in the world is dealing with cybercrime, but they're all doing it on their own. In the context of 'cyberwar' saber-rattling on all sides, getting governments to share information is a challenge. But an international security conference this week in Dallas is aimed at doing just that — even if only on an informal basis."

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  1. Re:OpenBSD could eliminate "cybercrime". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    OpenBSD could also eliminate cancer, starvation, AIDS, climate change and gay sex.

  2. Fake Conference? by An+anonymous+Frank · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just totally feels like those fake conferences that were posted about recently, where people would book hotel/voucher packages online only to find out the conference itself did not even exist!

    Wouldn't that be sweet irony?

    1. Re:Fake Conference? by qwerty8ytrewq · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you had posted a link to your own double-blind fake conference on fake conferences that would be ironic genius.

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  3. Re:Imaginary problem by HungryHobo · · Score: 2, Funny

    "how bout the constant attacks on DOD and DOE systems from china"

    How about the constant attacks on everywhere from everywhere all the time.

    "that they just might lose their minds if they lost it."

    So that's where the canibles in all the post apoc movies come from. They're teenagers who lost access to facebook!