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Counterterrorism Expert: It's Time To Give Companies Offensive Cybercapabilities
itwbennett writes: Juan Zarate, the former deputy national security advisor for counterterrorism during President George W. Bush's administration says the U.S. government should should consider allowing businesses to develop 'tailored hack-back capabilities,' deputizing them to strike back against cyberattackers. The government could issue cyberwarrants, giving a private company license 'to protect its system, to go and destroy data that's been stolen or maybe even something more aggressive,' Zarate said Monday at a forum on economic and cyberespionage hosted by think tank the Hudson Institute.
He's accessing vons.com with Chrome and Adblock +, Privacy Badger, and Scriptblock. He's obviously a Chinese terrorist subverting our capitalist ways, reformat his hard drive!
A Disney movie?
I for one plan to change my business card to read Buccaneer instead of Engineer. Being a privateer did not end so badly for all of them.
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