Curbing the Market for Cyber Weapons
The United States and its international partners are permitting an unregulated, global market for cyber weapons to flourish. Weaponized zero-day ("Oday") exploits to attack the control systems for the power grid and other critical infrastructure components are on sale to criminals, terrorists, and rogue nations. Policymakers have begun to recognize the imperative to curb this market. There is no consensus, however, on the measures needed to do so. We propose three initial steps to begin curbing the market for weaponized Oday exploits. First, the United States should incentivize developers of critical infrastructure industrial control systems and applications layer software to minimize security flaws in their products. The Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act provides an especially promising means to strengthen these incentives and should be amended to authorize such software developers to apply for liability coverage under the Act. Second, through the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, the United States and its international partners should establish uniform controls of dangerous Oday exploit sales targeting critical infrastructure. Third, the United States should amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to strengthen its ability to prosecute researchers located both domestically and abroad who recklessly sell dangerous exploits targeting critical infrastructure to America’s adversaries.
Panel Summary: The Future of Software Regulation
A panel at the New Security Paradigms Workshop (2014) discussed the topic of regulation and licensing of software developers and information security professionals. This included topics of the current state of certification, future possibilities, and challenges associated with new forms of regulation. This paper presents a brief background on the subject, three opinions presented by the panelists, and finally a summary of the discussion which occurred at the workshop, including input from both the panelists and the workshop attendees.
Kinemamtic analysis of flying-saw vehicle
The paper analyzes the kinematic motion of the flying-saw vehicle.After the analysis,it is concluded that the ac- celerating periods and decelerating periods in both forward and backward directions will follow sin~2αcurve and,in order to increase the sawing dimensional accuracy,flying-saw vehicle must come back as soon as possible while acceleration remains constant.Based on this premise,the paper gives out the equations of kinematic motion of the flying-saw vehicle in every sta- ges and one example result in a common situation.By now this method has been used in the real situation.