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applegrove

(118,020 posts)
Sat Jul 8, 2017, 06:02 PM Jul 2017

Top Democrat: Working with Russia on cybersecurity is akin to 'inviting the North Koreans' to discus

David Choi at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-putin-cybersecurity-hacking-syria-lavrov-adam-schiff-2017-7

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Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, disregarded the notion of the Trump administration establishing a bilateral "working group" with Russia to crack down on cyber interference in elections, and suggested the proposal was absurd, likening it to diplomatic negotiations with a rogue North Korea.

"The establishment of a working group as reported by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to study how to curb cyber interference in elections in which the Russians would play any role, would be akin to inviting the North Koreans to participate in a commission on nonproliferation," Schiff said in a statement Friday. "It tacitly adopts the fiction that the Russians are a constructive partner on the subject instead of the worst actor on the world stage."

Lavrov's proposal comes amid a new CNN report that cites US intelligence officials who say Russian spies, emboldened by the tepid response to their hacking activities from President Donald Trump and the Obama administration, were increasing their efforts to collect intelligence in America.

"It was agreed that all of these issues, including anti-terrorism efforts, fight against organized crime and hacker activities in any of their manifestations will be in focus of bilateral Russian-US cooperation," Lavrov said, according to Russian state-owned news outlet TASS. "A bilateral working group will be set up for these ends."

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Top Democrat: Working with Russia on cybersecurity is akin to 'inviting the North Koreans' to discus (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2017 OP
It's worse than diplomatic negotiations. It's like suggesting a joint missile program with them muriel_volestrangler Jul 2017 #1

muriel_volestrangler

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1. It's worse than diplomatic negotiations. It's like suggesting a joint missile program with them
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 09:34 AM
Jul 2017

You have to be able to trust the people you work with in security. It's telling them where you think weaknesses are, how you'll go about detecting hacking - everything that a hostile power would love to know about you.

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