{"id":7541,"date":"2014-12-19T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7541"},"modified":"2014-12-19T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T21:06:34","slug":"how-to-respond-to-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7541","title":{"rendered":"How to respond to cyber attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let me stipulate that I love living in a relatively<\/em> free and open society.<\/p>\n

However, there are some things I don’t need to know.<\/p>\n

I don’t need to know where we’ve deployed all our nuclear weapons and which nations are targeted by them. I don’t need to know where our spies are operating overseas.<\/p>\n

And I don’t need to know how we’re going to respond to the cyber attack launched — admittedly — by North Korea in response to that film that depicts an attempt to kill Kim Jong-Un.<\/p>\n

President Obama said today at a news conference that the United States is planning a “proportional” response to the cyber attack.<\/p>\n

Fine.<\/p>\n

Go ahead and plan away. I don’t need to know what we’re going to do to retaliate.<\/p>\n

I do have confidence that our highly trained American cyber spooks are going to deliver some serious grief to the North Koreans when the time is right and when they’ve decided how to get back at them for what they did to us on this end.<\/p>\n

Let’s face facts. North Korea is a half-starving Third World dictatorship that has squandered its money on a military machine at the expense of feeding its people or providing them with infrastructure. Its Internet technology is third- or maybe fourth-rate as well. Yet the reclusive Stalinist state has managed to hack into American businesses using some skill its cyber geeks have acquired.<\/p>\n

How much damage can our<\/em> geeks do to the North Koreans? Plenty.<\/p>\n

I just don’t feel the need to know the nitty-gritty details of what they’re going to do.<\/p>\n

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