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0 pointscriley12y ago0 comments

Did you honestly just use militarized cyberwarfare as an example of legitimate black hat?

The US/Israel are involved in a proxy war with Iran that involves cyberwarfare, clandestine operations and conventional military strikes (in the case of Israel striking Iranian-sourced Syrian weaponry).

It's an extremely poor example to use open cyberwarfare between nations engaged in everything but overt warfare to attempt to legitimize black hat hacking.

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err_badprocrast12y ago

I'm curious how you would classify China's crack teams engaging in industrial espionage. Is that black hat activity, or legitimate cyberwarfare by a nation-state?

chc12y ago

I think criley's point is that if your activities closely resemble international warfare, they probably aren't "legitimate" by any reasonable standards.

err_badprocrast12y ago

after re-reading it, you do appear to be correct. Thanks for the correction.

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0 pointscriley12y ago0 comments

Did you honestly just use militarized cyberwarfare as an example of legitimate black hat?

It's an extremely poor example to use open cyberwarfare between nations engaged in everything but overt warfare to attempt to legitimize black hat hacking.

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err_badprocrast12y ago

I'm curious how you would classify China's crack teams engaging in industrial espionage. Is that black hat activity, or legitimate cyberwarfare by a nation-state?

chc12y ago

I think criley's point is that if your activities closely resemble international warfare, they probably aren't "legitimate" by any reasonable standards.

err_badprocrast12y ago

after re-reading it, you do appear to be correct. Thanks for the correction.

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