N.S.A. Breached North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say – NYTimes.com
Evidence gathered by software hidden by the N.S.A. to monitor North Korean activities proved critical in persuading President Obama to accuse the government of ordering the cyberattack on Sony, officials said.
I think it's clear at this point that Cyber Warfare is the new arms race. The NYT is reporting that the reason the US was so confident that North Korea was to blame for the Sony hacks is that the NSA had been hacking and implanting malware on North Korean hackers since 2010.
Clearly we need to take all of this very seriously, but this raises some questions for me. Should we be putting our resources into offensive strategies or defensive? If we're on the offense (breaking into other nation states) can we really lay blame when they get caught doing the same? If we get caught and they retaliate does this mean that we escalate into WWIII, just all IP based?
Integrity and foreign policy… US fails at both
If cyber warfare is the new arms race, I fear the day someone invents the atomic bomb.
I dought North Korean hackers are even remotely a threat to the US. Their whole country runs of a intranet – their simply isn't the breading ground for people to develop that sort of skillset.
Other countries? sure.
And no, no pro-active moves against a country is ever justified. Not spying. No military. Nothing. Defensive only is moral.
Also worth noting the NSA spying shit is likely largely economic anyway. Its all about moneys.
+Evan Dierlam A atomic bomb for whiping out electrics and hard drives would be a atomic bomb 😛
Or a giant EMP.
+Paul Spoerry Out of interest, fiction aside, has there been a EMP weapon made without other effects? ie. a nuke effect without the explosion or radiation.
I would imagine this sort of warfare will become more hazardous when the internet if things is fully developed.
you are not suppose to get caught. that is how spying works.
not to forget this is still asymmetrical combat… the west, and the U.S. in particular, has far more infrastructure targets at risk … and as unappealing as it is to consider, Nigerian 419 scams are not the worst thing out there… so, not being naive,… there is no doubt that the conflict in this shadow world is every bit as hot as the cold war ever was…
Everyone spies on everyone. Depends on what u do with info
+Thomas Wrobel I think so… according to Wikipedia they exist, though they all require a chemical explosion to kick it off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Non-nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse_.28NNEMP.29
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