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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!
Oh sure, let's trust the people who can't even protect their own networks to properly identify the perpetrators of a hack instead of some innocent bystander running a TOR exit node. I can't see any risks associated with that. No. Not at all... :(
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
This is a great idea. What on earth could possibly go wrong?!?! Lets give the power hungry, egotistical, anti-social network security "experts" who are in charge of creating the insecure networks the right to use "deadly force" against those they think might be responsible.
I can't wait for the fecal matter to hit the CPU fan when the wrong company is targeted for retaliation er I mean offense.
Look up "letters of marque and reprisal", and perhaps "privateering", too.
Given that most "cyberattacks" are caused by crappy software, making software companies liable for their bugs looks like a better option to me.