Cyber Road Rage

Brandon ValerianoA recentWired article by Andy Greenberg has raised much interest in the cyber security field as it supports an idea many have been pushing for years, theability to hack ‐​back when countries target private entities and individuals. Much like a  license forpiracy and privateering, the idea of hunting forward on your own for retribution is more akin to a  John Wick movie than the course of international politics.Much like the mind ofDonald Trump and his mythical 400 ‐​pound hacker, for Wired, a hacker is a “man in a T‑shirt, pajama pants, and slippers, sitting in his living room night after night, watching Alien movies and eating spicy corn snacks.” This line was literally in a professional article written about a foreign policy issue.The man with the handle P4x accused North Korea of trying to steal his exploits, often unknown methods of invading opposing computer systems. When no action by the United States government was forthcoming, P4x took matters into his own hands and took down the entirety of North Korea ’s internet. Literally “dozens” of sites, by shutting down routers for a few hours. The oxymoron of a term, North Korean cyber defenses, failed, mainly because there is really no need to defend what is not really there since North Korea does not have much of a normal internet.The coverage contained in the Wired article is disappointing in that it fails to demonstrate the danger of letting a  sole individual take foreign po...
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