Lynn: Nations increasingly recognize the high operational utility of cyber weapons
Herb Lynn · a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:33
Herb Lynn, cybersecurity scholar, explains how nation-states have shifted toward cyber weapons over the past ten years due to their versatility and usability.
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“Cyber weapons are the, are weapons that are eminently usable for a variety of purposes. And one of the most interesting things of the past 10 years is that nations are starting to wake up to this. They're starting to see that these weapons are enormously usable.”
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