Cybersecurity

Arms Control in Cyberspace Evokes Challenges of Nuclear Treaties

  • Difficulty illustrated by U.S., China summit on cybersecurity
  • Geneva Conventions seen as model for limiting cyberwar
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Even after the world teetered on the brink of nuclear disaster, it took a decade for the U.S. and the Soviet Union to hammer out specific, verifiable limits on the world’s deadliest weapons.

Crafting a cybersecurity "arms treaty" actually might be harder.