Internet regulation for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

   Internet regulation for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

               

Part of the debate between the two candidates for the White House was devoted to their program for control of the Internet.

On the night of 26 September, in the debate between the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton, his Republican opponent, Donald Trump, part of the discussions focused on the hacks that have marked this summer's election campaign .

After hacking the Democratic National Committee, attributed by experts and the Clinton camp to Russian hackers, several attacks have targeted government sites. When asked about this issue, both candidates have delivered elements of their program on their vision of Internet regulation. By taking some arrangements with the truth.

What Hillary Clinton said on computer attacks:

"I think computer security, electronic warfare, will be one of the greatest challenges of the next president, because we are now facing two different threats. There are independent groups of hackers who steal information to sell them and make money. But we also see more and more cyber attacks from states. "

This statement is qualified. Clinton says the cyber attacks committed or supported by States are increasing. If the United States have faced in recent months a series of hacks likely related to countries, the practice is not new: in the late 2000s and early 2010s, several computer attacks breadth , attributed at the time to China, had already referred several countries, including the United States. China was also until recently considered the main threat to computer security of the United States.

What Hillary Clinton said on reprisals against computer attacks of State:

"We will not stand idly and allow state actors to address our information, data of our public and private sectors, and we must be clear that we do not want to use the tools at our disposal. We do not want to get into a new kind of war. [...] We must make it very clear to Russia, China, Iran and all other countries that the United States has the largest capacity [electronic warfare]. "

This statement by Clinton falls in line with the policy of the Obama administration. The latter made it clear for several years that it reserves the right to use all means at its disposal, including physical military actions to respond to computer attacks. Concretely, this orientation is now mainly led diplomatic and legal actions - including the indictment in the United States, several agents of a Chinese unit specialized in electronic espionage.

In parallel, the US has developed many tools of "electronic warfare" in the intelligence field as in the offensive capabilities. The budgets allocated to electronic response capabilities of the US military have been largely increased under the Obama administration.

Hillary Clinton has said that the fight against the organization Islamic State (EI) online:

"I designed a plan to beat the EI. We need to attack them on the Internet. [...] I think we need to do more, with our technology companies, to prevent EI and its supporters to use the Internet to radicalize or send people in our country, in Europe and elsewhere, but we also must intensify airstrikes. "

Clinton took up the idea, also advanced by many elected officials in France, that the fight against EI goes too - or especially - by the action of large groups such as Google, Twitter or Facebook, accused of not being proactive enough in the fight against jihadist propaganda. The requests of the US government have sometimes led to major conflicts with Silicon Valley: Apple, supported by the whole sector, has declined earlier this year to provide the FBI a "master key" to unlock its last generation iPhone, to respect the privacy of its users.

Some companies have taken the lead: Facebook or Google, provide free advertising space to associations fighting against radicalization, and claim to have achieved significant results.

This was said by Donald Trump on hacking the Democratic National Committee:

"Look at the mess in which we are. Regarding cyber, I partially agree with that said Secretary Clinton, we should be better than all the others, and maybe we are not. I do not know if we know that it is the Russians who hacked the Democratic National Committee. [...] She says it is Russia, this is Russia, this is Russia. Maybe it was. It could be China, it could also be a type of 200 kg sitting on his bed "

"Now, whether Russia, China or another country, that we do not know, because in truth, under President Obama, we have lost control of things before we controlled. We invented the Internet, the Internet. "

This is wrong: first, Internet was not invented only in the US but was made possible by a set of technologies, some essential, have been created in Europe. Above all, say that the US has lost control of Internet under the presidency of Barack Obama is wrong. No country has ever exercised total control over the network, but the Obama administration has rather strengthened the resources of the military and government online - while US companies have won the last eight years of a little market share worldwide, except China. The only concession the Obama administration has been to accept the transfer of the management of the "root" of the Internet, until now under US control, an international consortium, but this transfer is largely symbolic.

This was said by Donald Trump on the fight against EI Online:

"I think Secretary Clinton and I will agree on this point. IE is very good at what he does on the Internet, he beat us at our own game then we must be very hard on cyber and electronic warfare is a huge problem. I have a ten year old son. He computers. He's so good with these computers, it's amazing. The security aspect of cyber is very, very difficult. And perhaps hardly feasible. "

In a little long coherent, Mr. Trump said jumble that EI was perhaps better on the Internet than the Americans, that computer security is a complex thing, and that her son more comfortable than he with computers. On one point at least, he was right: IT security is a complex area that requires significant resources, and is constantly changing. Still, this has not much to do with the fight against EI, which has actually grown in recent years a significant online propaganda but which is, in the opinion of all experts and the FBI, no serious threat in terms of computer attacks.

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