Security News > 2020 > September > Putin to Trump: Let's collude to stop election hacking

Russia has taken the unusual step of posting a proposal for a new information security collaboration with the United States of America, including a no-hack pact applied to electoral affairs.

The document, titled "Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin on a comprehensive program of measures for restoring the Russia - US cooperation in the filed [sic] of international information security", opens by saying "One of today's major strategic challenges is the risk of a large-scale confrontation in the digital field" before adding: "A special responsibility for its prevention lies on the key players in the field of ensuring international information security."

Russia therefore wants to reach agreement with the USA on "a comprehensive program of practical measures to reboot our relations in the field of security in the use of information and communication technologies".

It is unclear if Russia's document elicited a public response from the USA. The two nations sought a cyber-détente in 2017, when Putin and Trump discussed a Cyber Security unit with unspecified functions and purposes.

Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/09/28/russia_us_security_proposal/