Obama on Russian Hacks: We Cannot Allow Cyber Arena To Become Wild West

‘But I will tell you that we’ve had problems with cyber intrusions from Russia in the past’

"We’re going to have enough problems in the cyberspace with nonstate actors who are engaging in theft and using the Internet for all kinds of illicit practices and protecting our critical infrastructure and making sure that our financial systems are sound. And what we cannot do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the wild, wild west where countries that have significant cyber capacity start engaging in competition, unhealthy competition or conflict through these means when, you know, I think wisely we’ve put in place some norms when it comes to using other weapons. So that’s been a topic of conversation with President Putin, as it has been with other countries. We’ve started to get some willingness on the part of a lot of countries around the world, including through our G20 process to adopt these norms, but we got to make sure that we’re observing them."
 

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