Posted on 09/02/2016 5:27:46 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called for the U.S. to begin treating cyberattacks like any other assault on the country.
“As president, I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyberattacks just like any other attack,” the Democratic presidential nominee said. “We will be ready with serious political, economic and military responses.”
Clinton called for the U.S. to “lead the world in setting the rules in cyberspace.”
“If America doesn’t, others will,” she said.
The remarks, given during a foreign policy speech at the American Legion Convention in Cincinnati, address one the central challenges the Obama administration has faced in responding to cyberattacks.
Without any international rules of engagement, officials must weigh a response to each attack individually — with the result being that the White House has often been accused of not having an adequate deterrence strategy.
Critics say that a lack of policy has muted government responses to incidents such as the massive hack of the Office of Personnel Management, which Chinese hackers are believed to have carried out.
Clinton cited the recent attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), thought to be carried out by Russian intelligence.
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Great. So she’ll get into a physical war with whatever country owns the source IP of the cyber attack without considering the attacker might have been in the US using a VPN? In case that country is China or Russia, then nukes are on the table. She is simply clueless and thinks we are supposed to be afraid of Trump destroying the world?
Building the pretext. Poking the bear.
Before you go to war, aren’t you supposed to provide proof of who attacked you? Is she going to go before the Security Council ala Colin Powell and provide incontrovertible proof of who did the cyber attack? The originators of such attacks are notoriously difficult to nail.
I guess nutjob Hillary doesn’t think she needs any Congressional approval, let alone Security Council resolutions, in order to start a war. It’s just her word, plus that of some flunkies, that’s sufficient. The Russians did it. Case closed. The missiles will be launched as we speak.
...you mean cover it up and blame it on a video?
How are you going to identify your cyber enemy when they bounce off servers all over the world in countries that won’t provide the data you need to identify the source of the hack?
Astonishingly ignorant. And they call Trump a threat.
And....if you don’t protect confidential government communications, turn yourself in to the nearest jail.
Meaning....
Don’t do anything about it then lie about its cause?
So Hillary wants to treat hackers and cyber attackers tougher than her husband treated the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center, murdered our Rangers in Mogadishu, bombed the Kobar Towers, the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and attacked the USS Cole. Everybody knows she was involved in the decision-making in the aftermath of these attacks. Going to bomb another aspirin factory Hillary?
She doesn’t know what “wiping a server” means. Suddenly, the MSM wants to worship her vast knowledge of cybercrime fighting.
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