The Forty-Year Cyber Policy Failure Congress Refuses to Address (opens in new tab)

Late last month, the former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division testified before the House Homeland Security Committee that the federal government should consider designating ransomware operators as terrorists and pursuing felony murder charges against attackers whose intrusions kill patients. The testimony was a serious response to a serious problem. It was also a measure of how far the cyber policy conversation has drifted from the question that would actually change the t...