David E. Sanger
Auteur van The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
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David E. Sanger was born in White Plains, New York on July 5, 1960 and graduated from Harvard College in 1982. He worked for the Tokyo bureau of The New York Times before becoming its Chief Washington Correspondent. Sanger was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, one for an investigation toon meer of the space agency and the other regarding exports to China. He has won several other awards in journalism, including the Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Center for American Progress
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Sanger complains the America isn’t prepared, has no policy or dividing line between cyberespionage and offensive attacks, has greater vulnerability than other nations because of its advanced economy, and is regularly giving up secrets because of the porousness of its government’s own networks.
Really there’s little new here.
In spite of the lessons learned from the 9/11 attacks, it sounds as though the American intelligence community is once again at war with American offensive capability: the spooks fear sharing their knowledge of their foes with the defence establishment who want to intrude and cripple the enemy.
And the enemy is getting smarter. In addition to stealing American secrets, Chinese investment is buying into Silicon Valley startups and getting full warning about what is on the horizon.
What anyone will find alarming about this analysis is that few in Washington know when or if to use conventional weapons in this new environment.
The current confusion over Russian meddling in the 2016 election being a case in point. Donald Trump aside, America is unsure what the most useful response to Putin should be, what will be a sufficient disincentive to future meddling both in American infrastructure and those of its allies. (NOTE: As I write this Chinese countervailing duties target Republican strongholds in the MidWest. Why Russian trolls count as “political meddling” in internal US affairs and the Chinese blowback doesn’t escapes me.)
This is what Trump ought to be hashing out at NATO meetings.
If the Stuxnet attacks on Iranian centrifuges showed American and Israeli cyberforces on the forefront, much of that lead may have disappeared as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea throw greater and greater resources at the problem.
Korea has even resorted to cybercrime to finance their programs.
But these vulnerabilities raise an even more fundamental issue: think back to the invention of the Internet by contractors working for DARPA. The original purpose of the Internet was to distribute control of American defence command to withstand a debilitating nuclear attack.
It is the very structure of the Internet which is opening American vulnerabilities, giving safe haven to America’s foes, and is proving a fertile testing ground for new and diabolical weapons of mass destruction.
Here again technology is coming back on itself. America’s (and our) foes are throwing its weapons back at itself very, very quickly. When it took years for the Soviets to replicate the American Atomic bombs and delivery mechanism, and its hydrogen bombs, the timeline for stealing NSA weapons and throwing back against the allies has dramatically shrunken.
This has the potential to dramatically increase tensions and destabilize all of our societies.
Overlay these tensions with advances in AI, genetic engineering, climate change, and new techniques to 3D print and distribute weapons, and you get one heck of a toxic environment.
That really sucks.… (meer)