Has the US started one?
More than passively eavesdropping, we’re penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We’re creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready to be “fired” against some piece of another country’s electronic infrastructure on a moment’s notice.
This is much worse than what we’re accusing China of doing to us. We’re pursuing policies that are both expensive and destabilizing and aren’t making the Internet any safer. We’re reacting from fear, and causing other countries to counter-react from fear. We’re ignoring resilience in favor of offense.
This may end badly.
This is much worse than what we’re accusing China of doing to us.
It may be worse than what we accuse China of doing but it isn’t worse than what China is actually doing.
A couple years ago, I attended a classified briefing by a cyber intel specialist. I can’t go into the briefing’s details but I did go home that night and tell my wife that we may need to reconsider our retirement plans. We should be buying a few acres of land and stockpiling food, water, guns and ammo.
So did you take your own advice, or is it really not hat serious?
No, I had to move on short notice last year and have a conventional home with a well stocked pantry. One of the things my new company does is information assurance. Perhaps we can reduce the vulnerabilities of the utility infrastructure. The guns and ammo are still on the agenda but are really pricey right now.