The Russian government is a notoriously bad actor in cyberspace, but this hasn’t stopped them from advocating for greater cyber cooperation abroad.
Last year, the United States agreed to resume the 2013 discussions on cyber cooperation that were halted after Russia invaded Crimea. Russian connections to the recent breaches of the Democratic National Committee and Yahoo show Moscow is not ready to be trusted in cyberspace.
Even if the U.S. and Russia could come to a substantive agreement, it would remain difficult to monitor what Russia was truly doing in cyberspace. Due to the anonymous nature of the Internet, Russia is able …read more
Source: The Daily Signal