Jordyn Phelps reports in Obama Tells Putin Hackers Shouldn’t Create Cyber ‘Wild Wild West’:
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“What we cannot do is have a situation where this becomes the wild, wild West, where countries that have significant cyber capacity start engaging in unhealthy competition or conflict through these means,” the president said. He added that nations have enough to worry about in the realm of cyber attacks from non-state actors without nation-states engaging in hacking against one another.
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Interesting that weapons that don’t require a major industrial base, like poison gas, biological, computer hacking, are such a pressing concern.
Weapons that small governments, small groups of people or even single individuals can produce and use effectively, well, those need to be severely policed if not prohibited outright.
If anything, there is too much hacking of private email accounts, celebrity nude pics, and rasomware with too little hacking of government emails, databases and document troves.
For example, there was a coup in Egypt (the most recent one 2013) but did you see vast quantities of diplomatic correspondence being leaked?
I am always disappointed when governments change and a bright spotlight isn’t shown on its predecessors. Especially if those predecessors had dealings with the United States and its minions. It’s not possible to tell what might be unearthed.
Hacking maybe the great leveler between governments and between governments and their peoples.
What’s there not to like about that?
PS: Unless, like Obama, you are loathe to share any of the wealth and power in the world.