Posted on 05/10/2015 10:59:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
If the U.S. intelligence community believes that Russia poses a greater cyber spying threat than China, what will it make of this?
Russia and China signed a cyber-security deal on Friday, which experts say could firm up Russia’s ties with the east and may become a foundation for binding cyber security ties in the future.
According to the text of the agreement posted on the Russian government’s website on Wednesday, Russia and China agree to not conduct cyber-attacks against each other, as well as jointly counteract technology that may “destabilize the internal political and socio-economic atmosphere,” ”disturb public order” or “interfere with the internal affairs of the state.” […]
Friday’s agreement is the latest sign that Beijing and Moscow favor changes to global Internet governance that would reduce the traditional role of the U.S. Russia is also preparing an action plan in case the Russian segment of the Internet was shut down from the outside, Russian minister of communications Nikolai Nikiforov said last year. …
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Heh, two completely untrustworthy parties making a deal that probably neither one of them intends to honor if the situation suits them.
That was all...it was the first thing that popped into my mind.
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