[Dailydave] Big Moods about the Cyberspace Solarium

[Dave Aitel]

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(
https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/03/04/cyberspace-solarium-commission-international-impact-event-7293
)

There are roughly one million podcasts about the Cyberspace Solarium
Project where members of the team "hint" at their recommendations, which
come out next week. The Youtube video above has some of the best and
funniest bits (thanks largely to Ellen Nakashima's great pushbacks on the
all-too-obvious BS), which resemble the bingo card you would make if you
listened to any Govt commission on cybersecurity from the past decade while
drunk:

   1. The Cyberspace Solarium is meant to be a whole of Country (GOVT AND
   PRIVATE SECTOR) strategy.
   2. You need to "bring the full range of tools to bear".
   3. "Markets are not intended to do national security but these are
   national security risks"
   4. Cyber insurance has a big role to play!
   5. "Increase resilience"
   6. "Cyber education for the populace!"
   7. "Work with our partners and allies!"
   8. "Norms based regime that will curtail bad actors"

Your *big mood*, since you are someone who works in the actual field of
cybersecurity is this: so pessimistic about these results that you *appear
optimistic* to an outside viewer. The country itself does not have a
trusted computing base: The DoJ and DHS are engaged in endless partisan
wars, when they are not directly confronting Apple or Google with a
fruitless siege over E2E encryption. We can neither MAKE decisions nor
communicate those decisions in a way that is trusted. It's snarky Twitter
messages all the way down.

Possibly the funniest part (39:22) of that video is when they wonder if
maybe Microsoft will do norms enforcement by potentially pulling out of
China because of IP Theft.

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Lol
It's not that the people on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission are not
heavy hitters, but the game they showed up for was rained out ten years ago
and nobody told them.

-dave
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