Lawfare Archive: Nicole Perlroth on the Cyberweapons Arms Race
The Lawfare Podcast
Is Mutually Sure Destroyment Really Dangerous?
The idea of "mutually sure destruction" is dangerous in the cyber world, he says. In nuclear weapons you have to have fissile material and a laptop; there's no such barrier for cyber tools. Cyber attacks can be easily discovered by other countries that may then use them against U.S. systems or target its own people with retrofitted software.
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