I just watched zero days, a great documentary about stuxnet. It is important to realize-- and this seems to be the films thesis, that secrecy is extremely damaging. It took 20-30 years for bioweapons, nuclear weapons, and chemical weapons treaties to be enacted and this process hasn't been started with cyber.
Attacking whistleblowers is damaging because it is postponing inevitable discussions that need to happen and interfering with discourse nations need to have within themselves and with other counter-parties.
> "It is important to realize-- and this seems to be the films thesis, that secrecy is extremely damaging."
Wow, I guess we watched the same documentary, but I didn't pull that message from that movie at all.
Just seemed like kind of a two front warning to me:
1. Those type of cyber operations are extremely difficult to pull off effectively. Stuxnet did little to damper Iran's progress.
2. Those type of operations are extremely difficult to control. Stuxnet got into the wild, even though its original targets were airgapped networks and industrial machines.
Attacking whistleblowers is damaging because it is postponing inevitable discussions that need to happen and interfering with discourse nations need to have within themselves and with other counter-parties.