South Korea Signs Up to Cyber Theft Pledge
On Friday the Obama administration secured its second win toward establishing a new norm in cyberspace. The Joint Fact Sheet published by the White House includes the following language: "no country should conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, trade secrets, or other confidential business information with the intent of providing competitive advantages to its companies or commercial sectors ;" (emphasis added) This excerpt, as well as other elements of the agreement, mirror words which I covered in my Brookings piece To Hack, Or Not to Hack ? I recommend reading that article to get my full take on the importance of this language, including the bold elements. It's likely many readers don't think of South Korea as an economic threat to the US. While South Korean operations are conducted at a fraction of the scale of their Chinese neighbors, ROK spies still remain busy. In January Shane Harris wrote a great story titled Our ...