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Originally Posted by TexaninVA
I think assigning a moral equivalence to the two cyber attacks is a mistake. To put it in perspective, the US/Israeli cyber attack was attempting to take out Iran's nuclear program or at least set it back. NK's attack was to intimidate a US studio from releasing a film critical of the Dear Leader.
I also think that one has realize that, whether we like it or not, we do live in a world of both good and evil. I think Iran and NK line up as what most people would call evil regimes ... off the charts actually (esp NK), thus my belief is we engage to win, and use our power to intimidate where possible the evil actors from doing ... what one of them just did.
It is possible Iran, or China and Russia are involved with the NK hack attack. We will have to deal with it if that's the case, and I will list some options /ideas in another post.
In the meantime, and while with caveats, it sounds as if you too agree that we as a nation can not let the NK attack go unanswered ... am I assessing this correctly?
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Let me see if I have this right. You agree that the US was directly involved with a cyber attack against an Iranian government project, a top secret Iranian government project. But because we are the good guys and they are the bad guys, Iran deserved it and should just not respond, or perhaps they should respond by bending to our will. NK attacks a Japanese company with a US division and you belief this is a more serious issue requiring a significant governmental response? Now we know China hacks into our corporations stealing their work, and likely lots of other nations are targets of the Chinese. These are much more important thefts than a movie and releasing embarrassing emails. Yet we continue to talk with China, trade with China, expect China to buy our bonds. We certainly have options with China, cut off trade, block their financial institutions from interacting with ours, prohibit US tourism, bomb bomb bombs away. Instead we have expressed our outrage, told our companies to strengthen their defenses, and likely increased our own cyber espionage.
http://csis.org/files/publication/14...Since_2006.pdf
So given the serious intrusions into our government's and our infrastructure's computers so often in the past and that we certainly are doing the same, I am not really outraged enough by Sony being targeted by either N Korea or someone else with N Korea's blessing to start a shooting war. I am more surprised by Americans being so afraid that Sony actually took these threats seriously and shut down the film. Maybe it was so bad that this saved them money on a looser.
As soon as air traffic opened after 911, Mrs. Blueash and I got on a jet and flew to Europe despite all the dire warnings of friends and the bloviators. Sometimes the way to deal with a bully is to just carry on and don't give him the satisfaction of seeing you react. How do you propose we
"intimidate the evil actors"
and are you certain they are rational enough to not retaliate to our intimidation with a major escalation.