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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Re: He's too late

[x0ra]

There is a difference between "Chinese / Russian IP addresses" and "Chinese / Russian sanctioned cyber attacks", but this has not reached the MSM yet...

After Hillary called for a military response ?

[Crashmarik]

http://thehill.com/policy/cybe...

and the Democrats referred to their recent attacks as "Terrorism"

Real security is plugging the holes, not attacking

[Anonymous Coward]

The way 'cyber' wars are won is to have proper mechanisms in place such that there aren't security gaps in the first place. The way things are designed today we have significant bloat and in part as a result are incapable of securing our devices. Adding 'security' on top was never the answer and we've done a really terrible job of designing systems from the ground up to be secure. We need to design processors, chipsets, and the like with long-term shelf lifes and the software that runs on these chips with the utmost minimalism and simplicity. By doing so we can spend more time identifying and more easily identify and plug the holes. The systems we utilize should feel more like something from the 1980s and 1990s with a handful of modern enhancements.