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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"Yet in this arms race, the United States has often been its own worst enemy. Because our government has been so incompetent at protecting its highly sophisticated cyberweapons, those weapons have been stolen out of the electronic vaults of the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. and shot right back at us. That’s what happened with the WannaCry ransomware attack by North Korea last year, which used some of the sophisticated tools the N.S.A. had developed. No wonder the agency has refused to admit that the weapons were made in America: It raised the game of its attackers.</span> "<br><div><br></div><div>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"Nuclear weapons are still the ultimate currency of national power, as the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore last week showed. But they cannot be used without causing the end of human civilization — or at least of a regime. So it’s no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran’s mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia and the People’s Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the<span> </span></span><em class="gmail-css-2fg4z9 ehxkw330" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">opposite</em><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny and increasingly finely targeted. And therefore, extraordinarily hard to deter.</span> "<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/sunday-review/why-hackers-arent-afraid-of-us.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/sunday-review/why-hackers-arent-afraid-of-us.html</a><br></div></div>