In October, former Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin's Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat, was released. It is available via Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079L5N2TC?tag=hacboogrosit-20 ).
Recently I was delighted to review some multi-media clips which feature excerpts from the work. Here are three such excerpts, via one such snippet (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/21/junaid-hussain-most-dangerous-terrorist-cyber-hacking-222643 ), followed by comments that I have added.
“We were, as a country and a society, providing technology to our adversaries—technology developed with our creativity and through our national investments in education; technology that allowed them to communicate securely and instantly among themselves and potential recruits; technology that was specially designed to allow them to keep their conversations private and prohibit law enforcement from listening even with a valid court order; technology that allowed them to reach into our schools, our shopping malls and our basements to spread poison to our children, tutor them and provide them operational directions and supervision to kill fellow Americans. And we’d given it all to them for free—available for an easy download in the app store, just a few clicks away.”
My comment: Putting a net around these risks is a global scale issue. Could/should/do licensing paradigms & OFAC/ITAR address this sufficiently? What’s the best path forward that acknowledges the spirit of the creative & free societies that created these technologies?
“After the retailer reported the email exchange, the FBI was able to trace the internet address of the sent email to Malaysia,”
My comment: Am curious what the author thinks of new leg that makes collecting IP addresses and related info a regulatory violation (https://eugdprcompliant.com/personal-data/ ). Will it have any chilling effect on law enforcement?
“Too often, it seemed like luck kept us safe”
My comment: I second this sentiment; it’s troubling.
Congratulations to the author & please share this post if you think an autographed copy would make a great holiday gift :)
-MCC,ESQ.
