President Obama Wants To Prevent a Cyber Weapon 'Arms Race' (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader writes:During an address to reporters at the G-20 international summit in China, President Obama stated that he'd like to prevent an "arms race" among countries that have various cyber weapons at their disposal. The remarks come after Russian president Vladimir Putin denied having any involvement with the hack of the Democratic National Committee's emails earlier this summer. Obama said that the world is "moving into a new era where a number of countries have significant capacities", before noting that the United States has "more capacity than anybody, both offensively and defensively" when it comes to cyber weapons.

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hell with the oath of office

[frovingslosh]

So the other countries are building cyber weapons and our great leader (and yes, I know that I would be modded down if I suggested that he hates America, no matter how eloquently I made my point) has decided to avoid an arms race, meaning that the others will keep building weapons to shut down our infrastructure, our power grid, our water and transportation and our financial system, and likely cause crippling damage to machinery and kill tens of thousands of people in the process, maybe even cause a nice meltdown, and our leader will just keep apologizing for America and not study the technology, not find ways to defend ourselves and not fight back. Ain't that nice.