One thing that COULD make sense is the Chinese telling us when they hack power plants and find someone else they don't recognize on critical systems.
(But you might need a watermarking system for that to actually work. :) ANNOYING LINK REPOST: http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-technical-scheme-for-watermarking.html But to bring it back to your point: If Wikileaks were getting the majority of its funding from China, would you expect the Chinese to block that? We all have very different understandings of what constitutes a cyber capability, or undesirable activity on the Internet. -dave (Also, as a side note: posts to the list don't show up in the queue if you are not subscribed from that address) On 5/18/2016 3:48 PM, Adam M. Segal wrote: > There was, as you can imagine, a certain amount of politics involved in > co-writing this with a Chinese author, and things were often not fleshed out > because they quickly ran into political realities. I can't speak for Tang, > but I was not thinking export controls. I was thinking more disrupting the > infrastructure of the groups to find, use, develop these capabilities through > other means-shared intel leading to kinetic, financial or other ops. All not > likely given strategic mistrust between the two sides > > -----Original Message----- > From: dave aitel [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 3:35 PM > To: Adam M. Segal <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: Where the nuclear metaphors all breakdown. > > http://www.nbr.org/publications/specialreport/pdf/Free/06192016/SR57_US-China_April2016.pdf > > Reading down into the cyber section... > """ > Beijing and Washington share an interest in preventing extremist groups and > other third parties from attacking critical infrastructure and should discuss > joint measures to stop the proliferation of capabilities to nonstate actors. > """ > > That's the kind of sentence that only makes sense if you're thinking about > export control actually working as if "Cyber Capabilities" were something > more than "code" and "information". But what else could you be thinking about > here? What does this actually MEAN? > > -dave > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list [email protected] https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
