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>> thats a really good point. were approvalling they have been inside the sony system for some time, looking for vulnerabilities. this i one issue the u.s. has to consider when it considers the array of possibilities of some kind of counteraction against north korea. to turn off the lights in pyongyang? so what. n if your opponent can turn off the lyings in new york. you have to be careful about the response. sony meanwhile -- i had a discussion with a sony exec on friday. sony is looking at thi...

Is that we live in a glass house right now. its not just sony. sony is good at defenses. sony has invested in this. they have seen attacks before. the rest of the u.s. corporations have the same vulnerabilities that sony does. we cant just look at the private sector. its going to have to rearchitect. the government has to be involved in defending. then we will have the option of being more offensive. i think until we set up the defenses, being offensive is going to be very challenging. >> should...

Cyber warfare business? >> we already are. but the real challenge we have in terms of using cyber offense is that we live in a glass house right now. its not just sony. sony is good at defenses. sony has invested in this. they have seen attacks before. the rest of the u.s. corporations have the same vulnerabilities that sony does. we cant just look at the private sector. its going to have to rearchitect. the government has to be involved in defending. then we will have the option of being more o...

We have to detour this kind of behavior in the future. >> lets talk about these deterrences. michael light ter and secretary chertoff, i want you to both comment about the act of retaliating with a cyberattack. nobody ever confirms this. there has been a debate whether this is ethically something the united states should do. are we going to start getting into the cyberwarfare business? >> we already are in the cyber warfare business. the real challenge we have is we live in a glass house right n...

Guys out there too. >> the attitude would be just be mindful that its likely to get out there sob careful how you say it or what you imply in your message. >> right. you dont want to make a threat to the president of the united states if you dont want the whole world to read you want. if nothing else every company in america ought to tell their employees that. >> bob let me bring you back into the conversation. we do this. when i say we i dont mean me, we the government has used the sequester ne...

Control other things are connected to the internet and have vulnerabilities. >> i want your response to what north korea said overnight which is hey, look, we are not involved in this. we want the united states to join us in finding out who perpetrated this attack. what do you say to that? do you believe them? >> im skeptical that this is north korea. that doesnt mean it isnt. and it doesnt mean we wont be able to prove it and wont be able to demonstrate. i start with a lot of healthy skepticism...

Suddenly. >> well, its a wake-up call. and were already well aware of the vulnerabilities of just the systems youve identified. we have sophisticated networks in banking and others that are being constantly probed and attacked. what this is a change in which its moved away from that kind of a sector and we need to -- we need to resolutely and deliberately continue the steps that are going to help us strengthen our cyber defenses. this is a problem that we will be facing well into the generation....

Government, with the state department on figuring out how to protect data? how do you take this opportunity as an initiative, a sort of call to action, where you say we have an opportunity to work with the private sector to come up with much better ways to protect our freedom of expression by having more secure systems. were hearing a lot of beating up on sony. that criticism may be we deserved. i would like to see the conversation shift and look at public/private initiatives. government and the...

Systems delivered in a way that the source is unclear. but the administration also very conscious of avoiding escalation. they dont want to provoke further cyber attacks or missile tests or another nuclear test by north korea. >> jim, you spent time in china. thats the source of a lot of the cyber attacks against u.s. businesses, even some government agencies. how did the u.s. respond to what they allege that china was doing? go ahead. >> first by naming and shaming china. but that took years ra...

Individuals responsible, but i imagine they are looking at counter measures, not just financial sanctions with which many have talked about. i would even venture to say that trying to push at north korean vulnerabilities. not just the regime, but the people who want it. >> is that even feasible given the technology. you know how shut down it is there. >> there about 12,000 or 17,000 people with internet access, obviously highly controlled. expanding the ability to connect might be seen as very t...