{"id":7655,"date":"2019-01-07T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:14:12","slug":"our-biggest-threats-keep-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7655","title":{"rendered":"Our Biggest Threats Keep Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In The Perfect Weapon:\nWar, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age, New York Times<\/em> national security\ncorrespondent David Sanger talks about nations\u2019 pervasive and growing uses of\nspyware and malware to achieve their ends. According to Paul\nPillar<\/a>\u2019s review in the Times<\/em>,\nSanger\u2019s book is \u201can encyclopedic account of policy-relevant happenings in the\ncyberworld (that) stays firmly grounded in real events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not a question of keeping the stuff out of our electric\ngrid, the controls of our nuclear plants, our military establishment, our\ngovernment. It\u2019s already here. And a piece of spyware in our systems\u2014watching,\nwaiting\u2014can turn instantly destructive on command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While U.S. companies, utilities, and some government agencies would like to reveal how much they know about these intrusions\u2014\u201chey, we\u2019re looking at you, too, so watch it!\u201d\u2014the clandestine services argue against it, because they don\u2019t want others to know that we know and what our detection capabilities are, much less guess our offensive capacity. If you were suspicious of that improbable string of fizzling North Korean missiles last year and wondered \u201ccould it really be . . ?\u201d you were right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanger\u2019s riveting journalism covers the woes Russia has inflicted on Ukraine, especially its power grid, a seeming test-bed for attacks on the West; it reviews the Stuxnet virus developed by the U.S. and Israel, which exceeded its mission of damaging Iran\u2019s nuclear centrifuges to emerge in the wild; he covers the fallout from Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations; and he describes more recent threats. Across at least three Administrations in Washington, the responses to the size and potential scope of this threat have been paltry. \u201cThe clock cannot be turned back,\u201d he says, and it\u2019s up to all of us to hear the ticking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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