Curious if this will result in extraterritorial enforcement. For example, it's clear Moscow is either unwilling or unable to prosecute cyber criminals within its border.
2) Are you arguing that the actual Great Firewall, a real thing we see actually working on a massive scale, does not make it much harder for foreigners to cyber-attack China?
3) See my other post on this thread—there's work toward re-designing the Internet to make evading state- or bloc-level origin control, including communicating with existing compromised nodes inside a state, remotely, way harder than it is now. I'm talking at the node-to-node routing and backbone level. It's interesting/terrifying stuff.
4) Couple 3 with some other minor and fairly obvious tweaks to how Internet access works, and even getting a foreign device with its own infinite-range radio into the target state would be reduced to step one of several to gain access to a target state's network, and that access would likely not last long if you start doing anything weird with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction#...
In fact, I would be surprised if we *didn't* have extraterritorial enforcement of any ransomware laws.
Hackers in Russia extorting Americans is illegal under U.S. law; that's extraterritorial jurisdiction. The U.S. government going into Russia (or Pakistan or Ethiopia) to punish those hackers without the home country's permission is extraterritorial enforcement.
We have a lot of precedence with the former. The latter's use is more limited, for obvious reasons.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41436213-sandworm
And here's an interview with the author
https://www.theverge.com/21344961/andy-greenberg-interview-b...
(Just don't equip your army with only nuke missiles because they destroy all of the good stuff and psy attacks would cross the streams.)
*Back when I was obsessed with this in the early 2000s I'd never heard of Elerium-115, it was always Element-115. Looks like the origin of the name is actually a game in 1994, but may not have become common until around 2013/2014.
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Looking back with 20/20: clothing styles back then, even for the rockstars, were damn basic: 99% long-haired, half-naked paler-than-I people in jeans, jean jackets, and wifebeaters. xD