Washington is not interested in confrontation with Moscow in cyberspace.
The US is not interested in confrontation with Russia in cyberspace, said Secretary of state John Kerry on Tuesday published an interview with the network edition of Wired.
“We discussed it (with the Russians), and the danger of this cannot be underestimated. We don’t want to go back on the same road. For 50 years we have been engaged in arms control. We participated in the arms race and create more and more nuclear weapons. And in a race in cyberspace — it’s the last thing we need,” admitted Kerry.
According to him, “we need to ensure that all of us in control of the situation and act responsibly”.
The Secretary of state noted that “this may require changes in some of the agreements that we have reached.”
Kerry also confirmed that President Barack Obama will decide when and how to take action against Russia because of alleged related to the hackers who carried out cyber attacks against American companies. “The decision was already made a long time ago. And now the answer will come this way and at this time of who will choose the President, and it may be invisible to you,” he said.
In the summer of this year it became known about the hacking of computer systems of the US Democratic party. The head of the national Committee of the party of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigned after the publication of scandalous site WikiLeaks of correspondence of parts of the party apparatus; it was argued that these data gave a hacker under the name Guccifer 2.0. Hackers have infiltrated the systems of other organizations of the Democratic party, responsible for elections at various levels. It was reported the hacking on voter registration in three States, about the possible theft by hackers of passport data of first lady Michelle Obama.
The Democratic party and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke directly about involvement in the attacks of Russia with the purpose to affect the result of the presidential election. No evidence of Russia’s involvement in these actions the US authorities are not presented. Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking about the accusations of Russia in the hacker attacks, said in published data, there is nothing in the interests of Russia, hysteria-mongering to distract from their content.
