Some Experts Question Efforts to Identify Cyberattackers
Efforts by the U.S. government to better identify cyberattackers will likely lead to violations of Internet users’ privacy and anonymity, and technological means to attribute the source of the attacks may be inaccurate, privacy and cybersecurity experts said Thursday.
Witnesses at a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing disagreed about whether the government should explore new ways to attribute the sources of cyberattacks. Several cybersecurity experts have called for new attribution efforts, including trusted identification systems, but Robert Knake, an international affairs fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations, said oppressive governments would use new identification technologies to track their political enemies.
Proposals to label IP (Internet Protocol) packets with unique identifiers “would be far more useful for authoritarian regimes to monitor and control Internet use by their citizens than it would be in combating cyberwarfare, crime and nuisance behavior,” Knake told the House Science and Technology Committee’s subcommittee on technology and innovation.
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