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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?