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Line Dancing.
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:25:06 -0500
One thing I like about Crimea is that if you squint hard enough, you can see the cyber battle and it's a battle of restraint. To wit: a while back the Syrian Electronic Army tweeted about messing with the SCADA systems for a power system. Doing this sort of thing kills innocent people, and the US has drawn a line there that says "If you go there, very bad things will happen to you, possibly we will just let the Isrealis kill you one by one with magnetic bombs, but more likely it will be something worse." (SEA members live in Tehran, not Damascus). Nobody has come out in public and said that messing with things that could potentially kill innocent people is "the line", but it's there and all the teams know it. In other words, while the US isn't going to roll tanks into the Crimea, there is a weapon system that the US can deploy against Russia. Even damaged by Snowden, the Russians are massively, catastrophically outmatched at cyber and getting MORE outmatched over time, and they know it. At some point Utah will come online and the Russians have nothing to match it. And of course there is future payoffs from quantum computing research, which, even if everyone has the same fundamentals will require "hegemony-sized" levels of investment to implement. And everyone doesn't have the same fundamentals, to put it shortly. Keep in mind that Obama is, for better or worse, the cyber war President. When he threatens your economy, when he says that "everything is on the table", he doesn't just mean sanctions. -dave P.S. Sign up for INFILTRATE <http://infiltratecon.org>. Chat about cyber war over an open bar filled with your peers.
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