Reply to post: o rly?

Hack us and you're basically attacking America, says UK defence sec

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o rly?

I'd like to see the US defense people's faces while reading that. I suspect they have a rather different view of the US-UK relationship on cyber security than the British government and it's along the lines of "someone attacks the USA, the UK must defend us. Someone attacks the UK... you're on your own"

(For sceptics, I'd like to point out that there is "form" for this - witness the treaty that led to the Extradition Act 2003, which means that the burden of proof for US law enforcement is substantially lower when extraditing from the UK than vice versa - US lawmakers didn't ratify the changes to US law, so they don't have to uphold their part of the bargain, but the UK does.)

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