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The Biden administration just announced sanctions against the Russian government for their (presumed) responsibility for the SolarWinds attack. They're not shr
by rst 5y ago
The Biden administration just announced sanctions against the Russian government for their (presumed) responsibility for the SolarWinds attack. They're not shrugging this one off.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/15/22385371/russia-sanctions-solarwinds-biden-white-house-putin-hack https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/15/22385371/russia-sanctions...
(Which is itself a bit odd. The US has argued in other contexts for "cyber norms" which would allow pure espionage operations, but put more restrictions on attacks. And so far as anyone can tell so far, SolarWinds was a pure espionage operation -- using tools that could be repurposed to do something else, but you could say that about a lot of operations in this sphere, including US operations that our government wants everyone else to shrug off. Yet here are the sanctions. I expect the "norms" push, to the extent that the current administration still wants to pursue it, will take some kind of a hit...)