Personnel of the 624th Operations Center, located at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland, conduct cyber operations. Over the past year, defense secretaries Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel have considered pulling U.S. Cyber Command out from under U.S. Strategic Command and making it a unified combatant command, on par with the six regional combatant commands, as well as functional unified commands established to oversee special operations, nuclear deterrence operations and global transportation. WILLIAM BELCHER/U.S. AIR FORCE
Thomas McArdle, Issues And Insights: A ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ Won’t Stop Cyber-Terrorism
A cyber-weapon developed by the National Security Agency boomerangs after getting stolen, in all likelihood by Russia. After being used in ransomware attacks on U.S. businesses, “EternalBlue” is now crippling the computer systems of multiple American cities.
The big tech companies’ recommended strategy for preventing future attacks that could go much further, seriously threatening national security? An international disarmament summit – no great surprise considering the ideological proclivities of these trendy firms, like Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
But diplomats negotiating signatures onto pieces of paper never succeeded in disarming nuclear tyrants or terrorists, whether they were Communists or jihadists. And they won’t pacify cyber-attackers targeting the free world.
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WNU Editor: The above analysis on why treaties will not stop cyber attacks and terrorism is 100% true. But governments and huge tech companies are pursuing it anyway.
