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Kind of feels like the US should have been focusing more on defensive cybersecurity rather than building cool hacking tools to go on the offensive.
by zug_zug 6y ago
Kind of feels like the US should have been focusing more on defensive cybersecurity rather than building cool hacking tools to go on the offensive.
- baxtr 6y agoWell that’s the nature of asymmetric attack vectors I guess. It’s more expensive to protect than to attack.
- indigochill 6y agoAnd from everything I've seen from government policy, they actually don't want to defend because that would mean securing common software that "the enemy" also uses, closing their own avenues of attack. You can't really have an arsenal of exploits at hand without acknowledging that by keeping them secret, you're making your own people less safe.