As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns
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Private cyber firms will be allowed to take action against foreign threats under a new White House policy, another step into a future where tech developers are ever more closely entwined with military operations, which now evolve faster than governments can keep up.
Under the policy, Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime – The White House ”announced Wednesday, the U. S. government will pay private cybersecurity companies to “manipulate,” “degrade,” “disrupt,” and “destroy” foreign adversary computer networks. The U. S.
government historically reserves the right to take those sorts of actions, although they increasingly do so with help from front-line private workers.