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This will most assuredly end well. I'm sure the Chinese won't respond in kind by escalating even further, thus creating mutual demand in both markets for cyber
by ccvannorman 11y ago
This will most assuredly end well. I'm sure the Chinese won't respond in kind by escalating even further, thus creating mutual demand in both markets for cyber warfare.
- gruez 11y agoand what's the alternative? not retaliate and try to beef up security even more? obviously that approach isn't working.
- ccvannorman 11y agoFrankly, I do believe an alternative is to try to minimize long-term damage by being smarter about security and making sure hackers go for the low-hanging fruit that will be easily fixed. For example, make a prediction market for where hackers will hit, and play with difficulty and incentive factors so that you control the game, rather than simply begging the opponent to go for bigger, better (worse) targets, which is what I assume is going to happen with the current course of action.
- jqm 11y agoWell... at one point the loser in the cyber war might decide real bullets can compensate for a loss in cyberspace... I wouldn't count on China coming out on top at that point. But more than likely it will stay just short of that and be like a fly that is just annoying enough not to walk inside for the flyswatter. Incidentally, what would China want with personal records of US government employees? Is it going to send them all spam or order stuff on Amazon using their bank accounts or something?
- ccvannorman 11y agoOn HN I can assume anyone can make a bullet list of reasons you don't want the Chinese to have unfettered access to American systems. I'll start a short one: - Power grids - bank accounts - internet - water/sewer control - traffic control like, it could be really, really bad.