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The founder and CEO of Dragos speaks with Dan Patterson about the US hacking other countries and its policies when responding to cybersecurity threats.
Dan Patterson, CNET and CBS News Senior Producer, spoke with cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc., Founder and CEO Robert Lee about the role the US plays in hacking other countries as well as the policies for cyberattacks in the US that result in loss of life.
The US official policies where the standpoint is we don't target civilian infrastructure, so where a Russian or Chinese team might feel comfortable breaking into US electric power, that's something on the surface the US would say, "We don't do."
Say the Saudi Arabia attack that happened, say something like that happened in the US where maybe a cyberattack took place on an oil refinery and killed five people.
If you have a 30-minute power outage due to a foreign power at a local town, you still scare the heck out of everybody.
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