Our topic was about “Regin”, a new computer spyware developed by a government.

 A major IT company says that Regin was probably created by a government, because the spyware developed in very short term and worked so sophisticated. It has ever attacked computers in Russia, Saudi Arabia and Ireland. Once the computers were attacked, they would be stolen their passwords or recovered their deleted files. It is still unclear what country’s government developed this spyware, although someone predict that a western organization did.

  When I first read this article, I feel very surprised about sophistication of cyber attack among all over countries. Then I thought two problems on this topic.

First was this attack’s anonymity. Only a half century before, “War” or “Terrorism” meant an attack by real weapons or real soldier. However, now the governments are able to attack their enemies by using such computer spywares. Their special feature is, I think, anonymity. When someone attack computers owned by the other country, they need not to go to the place or face their enemy. I think this way can attack them without suffering from a guilty conscience.

  Second was Japanese legislative system with reference to cyber attacks. I felt that Japanese people and also Japanese government have less sense of impending crisis. If we pass a new law about preventing us from these attacks as soon as possible, Japan would also have a significant damage by attacks from the other countries.