US Joins Global Cybersecurity Partnership (axios.com) 16
The U.S. is now part of an international agreement on cybersecurity that the Trump administration declined to sign up for, Vice President Kamala Harris announced in Paris Wednesday. From a report: 80 countries, along with hundreds of tech companies -- including Microsoft and Google -- nonprofits and universities have signed the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, established in 2018 to create international norms and laws for cybersecurity and warfare. The U.S. support of the voluntary Paris Call reflects the Biden administration's "priority to renew and strengthen America's engagement with the international community on cyber issues," per a White House statement.
It builds on U.S. efforts to improve cybersecurity for citizens and businesses, the statement continued. This includes "rallying G7 countries to hold accountable nations that harbor cyber criminals, supporting the update of NATO cyber policy for the first time in seven years, and the recent counter-ransomware engagement with over 30 countries around the world to accelerate international cooperation to combat cybercrime."
It builds on U.S. efforts to improve cybersecurity for citizens and businesses, the statement continued. This includes "rallying G7 countries to hold accountable nations that harbor cyber criminals, supporting the update of NATO cyber policy for the first time in seven years, and the recent counter-ransomware engagement with over 30 countries around the world to accelerate international cooperation to combat cybercrime."
Trust Kamala Harris, last words (Score:3)
Will this organization secretly bow to all of Chinas demands, similar to the WHO?
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If China continues to wield the most power, then likely so that's the case.
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Do you honestly think that the G7 would even consider such a thing? If you do then you have a serious lack of critical thinking.
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Presumably it will simply ignore NSA and CIA hacking, or the fact that some of the most potent cyber weapons are stolen NSA code.
If the US was really serious about this the first thing it would do is get the NSA to notify developers when flaws are found, instead of keeping them secret and weaponizing them.
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What SMH was invented for (Score:2, Troll)
Trump administration declined to sign up for,
FTA it something that he simply chose to ignore. My guess is a) he did not see any political gain from it, b) he did not see any personal profit from it, c) saw it as something liberals would do so it must be opposed at all costs, d) didn't understand it, e) Putin didn't like it, f) Jared couldn't comprehend the role of the federal government in it.
Did I miss anything?
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k) All of the above
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Honestly I don't see any point to this. Every one of these countries are going to spy on one another, and by far the easiest place to do that is cyberspace, so that's what they're going to do. And then of course, if they're ever caught, they'll deny it, and they'll more than likely have plausible deniability to go along with it, so how is there supposed to be any penalty for breaking this agreement?
I watched this movie (Score:2)
This was called "Nine Eyes".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
It's really amazing to me that we have literally dozens of works of art, whether books or films, from Notes from The Underground and 1984 to as recently as Spectre, the Bourne series, and many many more, which effectively demonstrate the inherent way that global surveillance basically inevitably collapses into supporting totalitarianism on a massive scale. We also have historical examples, both past and present of the implications of this.
We embra
U.S. efforts to improve cybersecurity ??? (Score:2)
The next US president then withdraw? (Score:2)
How could any country believe that the next president will not simply withdraw from this on his/her first day in 2024, leaving them holding the bag?
See TPP if one still needs any example.
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