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French application of international rules to cyberwarfare

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How difficult is it for small groups to create cyber weapons?

I guess it's in the interest of countries to make cybersecurity a difficult job to learn and master, and to hire any security researcher doing freelance so that cybersecurity expertise doesn't spread outside of the hand of big countries.

It reminds me of cryptography. Except cybersecurity seems a little more complex that cryptography, since finding holes in software is much more hairy than proving math theorems involving cryptography.

Small groups sell cyber weapons to governments.

How difficult is it for small groups to create cyber weapons?

Many very effective cyber weapons are the work of a single individual working on them part time.

> Except cybersecurity seems a little more complex that cryptography, since finding holes in software is much more hairy than proving math theorems involving cryptography.

Then you have never truly studied cryptography, this sounds like what someone who only studied things like the proofs that the decryption of the encryption is the plaintext would say.

As a medium-sized power, France is more sensitive to international law than the US, China or Russia. She will also not hesitate to prosecute generals for war crimes, as with the Firmin Mahé case, something unthinkable in the US or even the UK.

France is sensitive to international law mainly when it works in their own interests.

For example, go and read about France’s attitude towards the French agents who sabotaged the Rainbow Warrior.

So, like anyone else? That’s how international law works actually. And it works well we’re still here and not even pillaged or raped every year as we citizens used to be some centuries years ago. Progress

My view of the state-level (golden) rule for cyberwarefare:

(1) Thou shalt not publish the goods on another country's elite else they shalt do the same to you.

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