If Sony Pictures’ abject surrender to hackers is allowed to stand, our First Amendment will become meaningless, and our nation will be a sitting duck for whatever crazed interests can pull together the resources to hack and blackmail anyone who uses the internet.  Serious measures are called for. Speaking at the White House yesterday, spokesman Josh Earnest promised a “proportional” response, but he noted that because of the highly technical nature of some means of cyberwarfare, necessary secrecy means that “I don’t anticipate that we’ll be in a position where we’re going to be able to be completely forthcoming about every single element of the response that has been decided upon.” It is well and good to harden our internet defenses and maybe even fight back with some new variant of the Stuxnet strategy, infecting those who have been aggressors.  But a public face of the cyberwar is also necessary, if only to deter ISIS...(Read Full Post)