> He points to ransomware actors
Ransomware actors are petty thieves, trying to make a buck. Sometimes, allegedly, on behalf of a state.
The idea that we should collectively punish an entire nation (as "p4x" allegedly did to North Korea) because some cyber-bandits used IPs that are geolocated there is utterly barbaric.
> All of that hacking against the West, he argues, has been carried out with relative impunity. “We sit there while they hack us,” Caceres says.
STUXNET was a joint American-Israeli project. That's just the most public example.
Overall, what a great exposition of the inhumanity that populates the "war community" in Washington. This is the exact same mentality that leads to devastating sanctions and wars against civilians and other forms of barbaric collective punishment. This cybercriminal, sorry, "vigilante hacker" is upset that the government isn't going full-throttle with cyberattacks and now WIRED is giving him a platform. Yuck.
Ransomware actors are petty thieves, trying to make a buck. Sometimes, allegedly, on behalf of a state.
The idea that we should collectively punish an entire nation (as "p4x" allegedly did to North Korea) because some cyber-bandits used IPs that are geolocated there is utterly barbaric.
> All of that hacking against the West, he argues, has been carried out with relative impunity. “We sit there while they hack us,” Caceres says.
STUXNET was a joint American-Israeli project. That's just the most public example.
Overall, what a great exposition of the inhumanity that populates the "war community" in Washington. This is the exact same mentality that leads to devastating sanctions and wars against civilians and other forms of barbaric collective punishment. This cybercriminal, sorry, "vigilante hacker" is upset that the government isn't going full-throttle with cyberattacks and now WIRED is giving him a platform. Yuck.