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Venkat, long time (since BrSmrt Season 1!) reader, first time caller. I offer you the rare “no, and” here — at the strategic level. Most people misunderstand what most 3-letter agencies do. Cybersecurity especially. I used to coordinate it all (fr), happy to explain further.
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This is a long discussion and I wouldn’t want to presume I understand the totality of what Renee told you, which we may not disagree on. I would just offer that the remit of those agencies doesn’t overlap with broadly understood, broadly executed “decensive cyber operations”
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Perhaps "defensive cyber ops" is the wrong term, perhaps it is more DHS and CBP type function rather than FBI/CIA. Broad point is: some migration of state security functions to private actors due to their being only ones with resources, incentives, and expertise to actually do it
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Let’s talk through an example - a short story, if you will - of a cyber-scenario you think would enjoy state intervention. I can provide you some insight here as to how it would actually play out. My gut tells me the problem space is even bigger than you likely think it is.
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Best comparison I have found is to the memetic manipulation Sergei Tretyakov, fmr KGB rezident at the UN Mission, admits to in “Comrade J” >> how should the FBI have responded when they discovered that “Nuclear Winter” was a (literally) a KGB psyop?
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