New Japan law allows preemptive defense of infrastructure cyberattack
english.kyodonews.net
Japanese parliament enacted a law to allow preemptive acts of cyberdefense, giving the government the ability to legally monitor communications data during peacetime and to neutralize hostile servers in the event of an attack.
  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Most countries have been engaging in cyber warfare for a while now. I’m sure Japan already was doing this.

    Now it’s legal apparently. So that’s nice.