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Why should they not be on the offensive also? Wouldn’t it be a bit naive to think that the US would sustain from offensive cyber ops, when the other major world

• saagarjha 6y ago
  We already know they’re on the offense, so much so that if you asked any random American on the street what the NSA did their response would likely be “spying on me/other countries/terrorists”. Very few people know that the NSA is expected to (and sometimes does) spend its effort on defensive measures, and it would be a good idea for the agency to improve this record.
• samoa42 6y ago
  > Wouldn’t it be a bit naive to think that the US would sustain from offensive cyber ops you mean 'abstain'? and no, it would be responsible to abstaint because offensive cyber relies on knowledge of vulnerabilities in software and hence creates a incentive to not fix them which in turn weakens security for everyone.
• DarthGhandi 6y ago
  Would you extend that to bioweapons and depleted uranium munitions that are well documentated to have caused tens of thousands of birth defects in innocent children? X terrorist does it, so why can't the US right? Is this line in the sand really drawn at cyber? And does cyber not kill people in meatspace? Last I looked you drone strike weddings based on metadata. https://www.globalresearch.ca/horrors-of-war-us-uk-munitions-cause-birth-defects-in-iraq/5308406 https://www.globalresearch.ca/horrors-of-war-us-uk-munitions...
• ganzuul 6y ago
  You could still read their charter online 10 or so years ago. Their mission was defense. Today they have replaced it with "Mission & Values" which they define without any immediately apparent legal basis.