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Would be cute if a foreign country passed an analogue to JASTA [1] making the United States responsible for damages resulting from its developing, and keeping secret, tools for the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in civilian software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Against_Sponsors_of_Te...




What would those damages consist of? The only material impact I can think of is the apparently U.S.-developed Stuxnet program.


Cost of the incident response and remediation can easily be millions for a large corporation.

The malware on that belgacom server has probably required them to scrub all of their email servers and more that can't be cheap.


Look at how US prosecutors pile on the cost estimates in hacking cases.


Indeed. "We had no idea security was a thing until you broke in, so now we're counting the cost of giving a shit going forward as damage you inflicted."


Stop. Stop. I can only take so much excitement!


What is the point of this comment? It provides nothing to the conversation. Try to be constructive in the future.

For instance elaboration on why you like this idea, etc would at least give people something to discuss.


This comment provides even less to the conversation.


Sorry, I was trying to offer constructive feedback in case the person I was responding to was actually not trolling.

His comment is valid, I suppose, but only with added context. Hence why I suggested: "For instance elaboration on why you like this idea, etc would at least give people something to discuss."




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