America’s government is putting foreign cyber-spies in the dock
Some of its own hackers are not pleased
ON SEPTEMBER 6th, President Donald Trump tweeted his gratitude to Kim Jong Un for the North Korean leader’s “unwavering faith” (in Donald Trump). “We will get it done together!” A few hours later the Justice Department published a 174-page criminal complaint against Park Jin Hyok, a prolific hacker working for North Korea’s military intelligence bureau. It exemplified the tangled threads of a North Korea policy seesawing uneasily between diplomacy and pressure. But America’s increasingly litigious response to cyber-attacks throws up another concern: will its own legion of government hackers face retribution in kind?
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Suing spies”
United States September 15th 2018
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- An exceptionally underhanded smear lands Andrew Cuomo in hot water
- America’s government is putting foreign cyber-spies in the dock
- Two Muslim women are headed for Congress
- More and more “emotional-support animals” are boarding planes
- Gary Johnson for liberty
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