[Cryptography] Cue the blamestorming

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Kevin W. Wall <kevin.w.wall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:20 AM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Governments start cyberwars, then rush to the people and say they want
>> money for cyber defence.  Because, shock, horror, other governments are
>> attacking them.
>>
>> Now, of course, we probably do need government money for cyberdefence.
>> But they caused it in the first place.
>>
>> So letting them in the game, encouraging them, and asking for their help
>> is strictly the wrong reward for the wrong behaviour.
>>
>> Government-backed cyberdefence?  Just say no.
>
> If they really wanted cyber *defense* then I would have less concern.
> The evidence is though, that they truly don't seem to want to fund
> cyber *defense* at all, but rather cyber *offense*. They just try to sell
> it to the public as cyber defense.

The US is not the only government I talk to.

It is quite possible for a US general to claim that they are going to
create a force of 'cyber-warriors' who will beat the rest of the
world. They are talking nonsense but nobody is going to tell them that
they are talking nonsense.

Thats the problem with being a superpower: Hubris doesn't look like hubris.



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