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When a lot of culprits are state actors, stepping up enforcement is a naive and useless endeavour
by Moosdijk 5y ago
When a lot of culprits are state actors, stepping up enforcement is a naive and useless endeavour
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- rich_sasha 5y agoI don’t think so. Hack the hackers. In a war if someone is shooting at you, you shoot back. Until you do, they keep shooting. I’m not saying it’s easy, just that this is the thing to do when you’re attacked.
- bruiseralmighty 5y agoGood point, but in a war, the goal is to disarm your enemies in order to pacify them. I'm not sure how you disarm a hacker in this century. State sponsored or not, everyone will have access to a computer.
- Moosdijk 5y agoLook up the lazarus group, state hackers from North Korea. The way you seem to be thinking about war doesn't apply at all to the current situation.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoActually, it's called "war", and it tends to be fairly effective (for one side, at least). Unfortunately it comes with a lot undesirable side effects.
- klyrs 5y agoIf this century sees large-scale DDoS attacks, information breaches, power plant / pipeline shutdowns, etc., I strongly prefer that to the trench warfare and carpet/nuclear bombings of the last century. Hacking wars are lukewarm. A hot war seems like it will involve a lot more drone strikes -- which might not be significantly better than the last century, but terrifying nonetheless. And until it comes home, I don't think Americans will fully appreciate how our government (hence, our nation) is perceived a terrorist organization abroad.
- vkou 5y agoYou're confusing state actors with people who are taking advantage of jurisdictional and regulatory arbitrage to do crime.