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Subject: [ISN] U.S. Running Out Of Allies On Cyber Battlefield
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2014-02-24 8:35:36
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1402240835250.19116 () infosecnews ! org
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By Sara Peters
Dark Reading
February 19, 2014
International cyber policy and enforcement and ownership over the Internet
are all thorny topics, particularly since the Edward Snowden leaks. All of
these subjects will be tackled at the RSA Conference next week in a panel
discussion titled "Cyber Battle: The Future of Conflict."
Outdated extradition treaties are not prepared to deal with the borderless
realm of the Internet. Although there are rules about international
airspace and international waters, there is no defined international
cyberspace. Without discrete laws to be enforced, cybercrime
investigations and prosecutions rely less upon a set of established
directives and more upon an international spirit of cooperation.
Yet recent events have disturbed that spirit of cooperation. Dmitri
Alperovitch, panel moderator and co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike, says
that while the U.S.'s traditional allies are publicly taking a stand
against American spying, unofficially they're much more understanding and
less surprised.
However, says Alperovitch, the Snowden scandal has increased the "lack of
trust from the rest of the world in the continued U.S. leadership of the
Internet."
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