The article says that the US "may be inclined to engage with Russia at the UN to modify the language of the proposal so that it's compatible with US norms and policy goals." My guess is that the US government is at least as heavily engaged in "cyber crime" (and probably better at it) as Russia is, just not for altogether the same ends. Our "super hackers" are more into espionage and bringing down infrastructure, and not citizen extortion and theft, like Russia is. Russia's behavior is much more visible to the public at large, which puts a little (just a little) pressure on the West to respond. So, how do you think the US will "modify" Russia's proposal so as to protect our "norms and policy goals?" Russia wants to stop our deep government hacking and get the UN and the world community in general to enforce against us, and we will NEVER agree to it without extreme public pressure, which will never happen. So, you may as well throw Russia's proposal onto the trash heap.
Russia is being very clever here doing this in public. The West will never agree to a proposal that will in any way endanger or expose our hacking, while they will never stop stealing credit card numbers, Social Security information, employment records, raiding bank accounts, and distributing malware. It is much cheaper for Putin to hack into every private computer and commercial server in the West, than to build weapons and hire armies. When the Soviet Union collapsed, literally 100's of thousands of first-rate programmers were thrown out of work for Putin to hire. And their English language skills are getting better and better. Maybe we should look more closely at the Russian proposal. Huh? (Somebody downvoted this less than 4 minutes after I posted it. WHY ??? What reason? Who do you work for???)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
