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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.
... this isn't going to end well.
Companies have demonstrated how careful and responsible they are with the DMCA takedowns, so it's only logical that we allow them to go further and actively attack the evil-doers out there.
Retaliation? This would essentially declare a new er of corporate v corporate cyber warfare with no holds barred and a referee paid by the highest bidder.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Otherwise, this will create private, corporate owned, corporate sponsored armies. They will be, essentially, corporate warlords.
You mean like Academi/Xe/Blackwater?
And let us not forget that it was giving tax CUTS to one of these trading companies that set of the Boston Tea Party.
Yes, you read that right. They teach you in school that it started because of a tax on tea and they let that little mistruth simmer for a while to reinforce the 'taxes always bad' mentality. What really happened was there was a tax on tea allright, but that wasn't what got people upset.
The British East India company had tea stores all over the Colonies, kind of like we have Wal-Marts. We also had independent tea shops and that didn't sit well with the corporate leaders (sound familiar?) So they got the government to give them and ONLY them a tax cut so they could drive the locals out of business.
Yes kiddies, the Boston Tea Party was about corporate giveaways, the very thing conservatives fight in favor of today even as they allegedly revere the founding fathers. That's why they never teach kids the real story.