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> Mr Biden said he gave Mr Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure sectors, from energy to water, that should not be subject to hacking. This sounds like a
by jpster 5y ago
> Mr Biden said he gave Mr Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure sectors, from energy to water, that should not be subject to hacking.
This sounds like a concession of major weakness on the part of the US. I guess we already knew that Russia has outmatched US’s cyber capabilities, but I was surprised to see it acknowledged by Biden in this way. And if Russia ignores this edict, it means they’re doing so in the full knowledge that it may be seen as a declaration of war? Which would lead the US to respond with its own war-like actions? High stakes.
- aksss 5y agoI don’t think the US is outmatched in capabilities compared to Russia. The difference here is the tacit permission for private criminal groups to operate in Russia as long as they don’t attack Russian interests. If the US criminal justice system effectively decriminalized cyber attacks on foreign entities by the private sector, a lot more people on this forum would be rich and the scourge unleashed would make the Internet a far more interesting and hardened landscape. In other words, it’s less a product a higher class of technical capability maintained by the nation so much as the work product of a deregulated and privatized industry operating in a blue ocean.