Michael Hayden says Countries Spewing Cyber Attacks Should Be Held Responsible

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: "Lin, Herb" <HLin () nas edu>
> Date: July 29, 2010 6:03:16 PM EDT
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: : Michael Hayden says Countries Spewing Cyber Attacks Should Be Held Responsible

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> And what about the fact that the US is sometimes the nation spewing cyberattacks? 
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> Are we willing to live according to that standard?
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> herb
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> WIRED
> Former NSA Director: Countries Spewing Cyber Attacks Should Be Held Responsible
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> By Kim Zetter  July 29, 2010  |  3:52 pm  | 
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> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/hayden-at-blackhat/
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> LAS VEGAS — Attribution is one of the biggest problems on the internet when it comes to cyberwarfare. How do you hold 
> a nation responsible for malicious attacks if you can’t determine whether or not the activity was state-sponsored?
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> Retired General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency, said on Thursday that one solution 
> being discussed in government is to simply forget about trying to determine if the source of an attack is 
> state-sponsored or not and hold nations responsible for malicious activity coming from their cyberspace. His words 
> were greeted with applause from the audience of computer security professionals.
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> -- snip –
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