Robert K. Knake testifies before the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology on the role of attack attribution in preventing cyber attacks and how attribution technologies can affect the anonymity and the privacy of Internet...
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Monica Jones's comment,
October 15, 2012 11:52 PM
The downsides to attaining full attribution on the internet are the internet-based attacks which is the "cyber war" network exploitation, crime, brute force, and nuisance. Second is the non-internet cyber attacks and lastly is the supply chain threat.
Jonathan Schneider's comment October 16, 2012 10:38 AM
The major problem with full attribution is that rather than addressing the issues of cyber-warfare and other types of cyber crime, full attribution would hinder freedom of expression; as well as countless peoples' access to information on the internet. The other glaring issue is that of privacy: Knake feels that privacy on the internet should not rely solely on anonymity, but that legal requirements and technical measures should be further developed.
John Letterman's comment,
October 17, 2012 11:53 AM
Full attribution cannot be implemented at this point in time, for it poses too many potential problems. The overarching three include, Internet-based attacks, non-Internet based attacks, and supply train threats. Also attribution is a major problem to the lack of symmetry, a key component to deterrence if that is still our defensive method of choice. In this article, Knake states that instead of focusing on attribution we should focus on the need to reduce the scale of problems by stopping threats as they unfold and by reducing the vulnerabilities that the threat actors make use of in their attacks. This is still a developing study, though, with so many components at play, so it may be a few years before any major decisions are made.
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