Re:Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readie...
by nradov on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:48PM
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I doubt we'll see formal legal letters of marque until and unless we're in a state of open war. The US government already has a policy of using kinetic means to retaliate against serious cyber attacks and other governments take similar approaches. So unleashing a bunch of mercenaries without clear constraints would create a dangerous risk of unexpected escalation.
But federal law enforcement could simply decline to pursue private actors who attacked adversary states. Plausible deniability, to an extent.
But federal law enforcement could simply decline to pursue private actors who attacked adversary states. Plausible deniability, to an extent.