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NSA Director Says Agency Is Still Trying To Figure Out Cyber Operations
Trailrunner7 writes: In a keynote speech at a security conference in Washington on Tuesday, new NSA Director Mike Rogers emphasized a need to establish behavioral norms for cyber war. "We're still trying to work our way through distinguishing the difference between criminal hacking and an act of war," said Rogers. "If this was easy, we would have figured it out years ago. We have a broad consensus about what constitutes an act of war, what's an act of defense." Rogers went on to explain that we need to better establish standardized terminology and standardized norms like those that exist in the realm of nuclear deterrence. Unfortunately, unlike in traditional national defense, we can not assume that the government will be able to completely protect us against cyber-threats because the threat ecosystem is just too broad.
YOU ARE THE CYBER-THREATS.
I find it easy to believe. He's typical of the fucking morons that run the bureaucracy of this nation. War is what happens between nations and criminal activity is what happens when individuals or gangs break the law. This whole thing of calling these thugs terrorists tends to legitimatize them and makes them more effective. Just catch them, throw them in a hole and toss the key away. Enough of all the drama already. Now they've twisted things so that minor criminals serve time like they were mass murderers or something. It's like the terrorists won, they destroyed the entire culture so that you can't even fly from Atlanta to New York without feeling like you're in the old Soviet Union. It feels like you're trying to sneak out plans for a new Red Navy submarine.