Private Companies Could Play Role in Cyberwarfare Under New U.S. Plan, by Adam Sella

Because Trump’s a businessman, and so, everything in the U.S. government, from the national defense means, etc., etc., etc., is privatized, and that will be problematic, because it doesn’t work together under ONE whole system and as the result: too many cooks spoils the, soup!  From The New York Times, that came with today’s papers…

The Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with offensive cyberattacks, according to four former senior U.S. officials familiar with the administration’s thinking.

The proposals have been included in drafts of the administration’s coming National Cybersecurity Strategy, which will set out general priorities and be accompanied by a plan to carry out the policies, said the former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a document that was not yet public.

The government can currently contract private companies to develop elements of its cyberoperations.  But the initiative would drastically expand the role of private companies in cyberwarfare, raising a host of questions about the legality and practicality of their involvement.

America, the Trump Enterprise!

It would be a more aggressive approach that was the subject of a confirmation hearing Thursday for President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead U.S. Cyber Security Agency Command and the National Security Agency, Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd.

Under the law, private companies are prohibited from conducting offensive campaign s online, which can range from the breach that paralyzed Britain’s largest carmaker to persistent assaults targeting an opponent.

Changing the law to permit private companied to execute offensive cyberattacks would require congressional approval.  In the past, representatives in Congress have proposed legislation that would do just that.  Recently, those proposals have reemerged.  Some lawmakers have called for private companies to be allowed to “hack back” when they come under attack.

But the measures raise the specter of U.S.-approved piracy in cyberspace, said Lieutenant General Charles Moore Jr., a retired deputy commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and an author of a recent report about the role private companies could play in U.S. cyberoperations.

Moore and his co-author, Brett Goldstein, a cybersecurity expert who held senior positions in the Defense Department pointed to those potential complications in their report, published by Vanderbilt University’s Institute of National Security.

Without Cyber Command overseeing all operations, Moore said, “you’re going to have actions that take place by private companies against nation-states that believe that was the formal position of the United States, and now you see escalation, and potentially even kinetic conflict come of that.  You’re going to see chaos.”

And this, is how privatizing these national defense strategies will do, it will, cause CHAOS, because it’s not on a unified level of agreement by a higher up government agency, like the D.o.D. (not that the D.o.D. of the U.S. is working right now under Hegseth!), but, at least, if these things that are used to defend the country from cyberwarfare, is run and operated by a higher government agency (i.e. the D.o.D.), then, everything will be consolidated, that at least, this SHIT would work as a whole, and functional or not, that’s still, not the issues, because you HAVE to have the systems set up and working right, before you can, discuss just how, functional or unfunctional the operation is, and the U.S. can’t even agree on the setup of this system yet, no WONDER it’s a SHITTY mess!