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Old 03-26-2014, 10:37 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by planetdoc View Post
Patching vulnerabilities could undermine your own offensive capabilties assuming that your target patches vulnerabilities you have made public.

Although the US could gather cyber weapons, using them such as they have with stuxnet and Flame lead to the arms-race.

Its like the idea of mutually assured destruction (aka MAD). No one uses nukes because they are scared others will too. After the US used cyberweapons, now plenty of others are as well.

The worst part about all of this is that the US is more technologically advanced than most (if not all) other countries, and thus are the most vulnerable to cyberattacks. They have neglected defending the homeland to go on the offensive.
Again, where do you get your confidence? What makes you think the US used cyberweapons first? Or that others wouldn't have acted without the US acting first?
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