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President Trump Relaxes US Cyber-Attacks Rules:
President Trump has signed an order relaxing rules around the use of cyber-weapons, the Wall Street Journal reports.[*]
It is a reversal of guidelines, drawn up under President Obama, which required a large number of federal agencies to be involved in any decision to launch a cyber-attack.
[...] The US administration is under pressure to deal with cyber-threats, amid growing concerns that state-sponsored hacks could hit critical infrastructure.
Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey, told the BBC: "We are in a era when certain governments are acting aggressively in cyber-space, and that is rightly condemned by governments such as that in the US.
"To respond in kind is not necessarily the way to de-escalate the situation."
He added: "You wouldn't allow a pre-emptive physical attack without thorough analysis and approval at the highest levels, so why would cyber-attacks be any different?"
[*] Paywalled.
Let's hope extreme care is taken to identify the actual source of an attack, rather than the apparent source.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday August 17 2018, @09:02PM (1 child)
Actually, that's not generally what the dictionary definition says. For example, Merriam-Webster says [merriam-webster.com]: "one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ." Note "professes BELIEF in..." That's usually what the polls assume, and what most people assume, unless they are doctrinal zealots. If we judged "Christians" by their actions throughout history, we'd pretty much have to declare that >99% of them weren't Christians.
Anyhow, the reason I brought this up is because lots of "Christians" also like to claim that they know others aren't "Christians" based on some doctrinal test. Historically, Catholics often declared any non-Catholic Christians to be "not Christian," and to this day, some of the dogmatic language of the Catholic Church basically still says Catholics are the only "true Christians." Lots of mainstream Christian churches historically declared Anabaptist sects to be "not Christian." Many mainstream Christian denominations even today declare that Mormons are "not Christian." Etc., etc.
In fact, despite a number of biblical proclamations urging people to "judge not..." it's interesting that one of the greatest historical pastimes of many Christian denominations has been spending time figuring who qualifies as "Christian" and who they declare to be "not Christian." Interestingly, "Judge not..." is one of those "precepts attributed to Christ" that you appear to hold most dear. Yet you seem to find no difficulty in ignoring that one when judging others...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 18 2018, @12:13PM
You just reminded me of the unbridled rage on my hardcore-Protestant grandfather's face when we went to Bucca di Beppo's to eat once and got the table with a bust of a pope in the center :D Almost as much fun as when I told him that Jesus was fake when I was very young.