{"id":12466,"date":"2016-12-19T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the_utter_hypocrisy_of_feigned_russian_hacker_outrage.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:30:38","slug":"the-utter-hypocrisy-of-feigned-russian-hacker-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/the-utter-hypocrisy-of-feigned-russian-hacker-outrage.html","title":{"rendered":"The Utter Hypocrisy of Feigned Russian Hacker Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the president to the mainstream media, all of a sudden it seems state-sponsored hacking is a problem<\/em><\/p>\n

Whether you believe Barack Obama’s presidency was a failure or a success, there is no doubt on the subject of cybercrime, this administration not only failed to bring state-sponsored hackers to justice, they rewarded the people who directed them with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash.<\/p>\n

The U.S. knew the Iranian government hacked American financial institutions as well as public infrastructure which could have killed Americans. As a result, Attorney General Loretta Lynch indicted<\/a> seven Iranians for doing the hacking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. then gave $1.7 billion dollars to the country. Yes, the argument can be made that the money was owed to Teheran. This doesn’t mean the U.S. had to pay it.<\/p>\n

If the U.S. wanted to send a message to global cyberhackers, all it had to do was to ask for the seven indicted hackers in exchange for the money.<\/p>\n

This isn’t such a difficult idea. If your country hacks the U.S. and you then fork over just under 2 billion dollars, you obviously couldn’t care less about your nation’s cybersecurity.<\/em><\/p>\n

This was mentioned<\/a> by none other than me in August. Did anyone care about state-sponsored hacking at the time? Absolutely not.<\/p>\n

Look at what I said:<\/p>\n

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One wishes something as crucial as this got the media coverage it deserves but instead, the top political news of the day and I kid you not is Donald Trump choosing an advisory team with no women<\/a>, Donald Trump is Crazy<\/a> as well as other crucial news like Donald Trump’s Campaign Website Won’t Let You Cancel Recurring Donations<\/a> and of course What Happened After I Wrote That Cargo Shorts Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bottom line, it’s very difficult to identify foreign hackers. Let alone seven of them. The U.S. had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get these criminals and bring them to justice. Instead, we gave the country-of-hacker-origin almost two billions dollars! And we didn’t get one hacker in exchange – not even one!<\/p>\n

If the current administration really felt state-sponsored hacking was a priority, the time to address it has come and gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the president to the mainstream media, all of a sudden it seems state-sponsored hacking is a problem Whether you believe Barack Obama’s presidency was a failure or a success, there is no doubt on the subject of cybercrime, this administration not only failed to bring state-sponsored hackers to justice, they rewarded the people who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1682,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18445,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}