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The arms race is in exploits and software development. The country with the largest stockpile of the former and the best talent in the latter will emerge the vi

• PeterisP 5y ago
  A large stockpile of exploits can only harm someone else's economy, and it does not protect your economy. So perhaps your neighbour will suffer more than you do, but none of you will be winners in any sense.
  • munificent 5y ago
    The threat of retalition is historically one of the best defenses.
    • PeterisP 5y ago
      With big limitations that don't apply here. Things like mutually assured destruction work if/because an attack is quickly detectable, reasonably clearly attributable, and a symmetric tit-for-tat retaliation is plausible. That's not the case for cyberattacks. Solarwinds was attacked many months before it was detected, Stuxnet was hidden for years. We have attributed some attacks but not most and attribution often succeeds only years after detection. And the attackers aren't as vulnerable to cyberattacks simply because their economy is "less connected" - for example, North Korea is at the extreme end of that scale and they really don't care much about what exploits you have; you have a digital economy that's wealthy but vulnerable to attacks by those who don't have it.