Cold War redux in cyberspace

The militarization of cyberspace in the absence of agreed norms for responsible state conduct is a serious danger that should not be ignored.

The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured here at the UN in 2015, has been accused on more than one occasion of launching cyber attacks on other countries, most recently leading to the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the United States.Cia Pak photograph courtesy of the United Nations

Opinion

BY PAUL MEYER

January 11, 2017

Some readers will fondly recall Mad magazine and the regular Spy vs. Spy cartoons that pitted black hat and white hat agents in a perpetual struggle for supremacy. Throughout the Cold War, publics became familiar with periodic bouts of spy-versus-spy scandals and associated expulsions. It ...

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