The new order sweeps away decades of existing U.S. cybersecurity policy prohibiting private companies from conducting ‘hack back’ attacks or offensive cyber operations.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260813215558/https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/in-a-first-us-will-allow-some-private-firms-to-carry-out-cyberattacks/
Shadowrunners, start your engines
Seriously, you beat me to it. All I know is that I’m not tangling with the Voodoo Boys.
Only in the U.S. would cyber warfare be privatized…
Israel does the same.
Problem is, the device the firms might be attacking is possibly just a zombie. A victim themselves.
It’ll make em stop.
It doesn’t have to be destructive either. Wifatch is a good example.
Oh yeah sure. The private corps are just going to not be destructive. They’re always so careful with everything else after all.
This will be be a fascinating period for future historians to study, providing there’s time for people to do that between hunting for mutant gilas and hiding from ruinstorms.
Future historians won’t be able to figure out squat, not since websites turn over fast and data gets lost in remodels.
The only thing that may be reliable is the trash, the physical trash. And all they can say about that is we were remodeling like we had the money.
