BURN BEFORE SENDING:
The Intersection of Hacked Emails and Cyber Counterintelligence in the 21st Century
Michael van Landingham and Alex Orleans discuss how hostile cyber operations threaten not only a victim’s data and the potential for coercion therefrom, but also expose these victims to potential criminal liability resulting from broad-based cyber counterintelligence (CI) activities. This exposure raises serious implications for both future CI and information operations. In this digital wilderness of mirrors, intelligence officers on either side may pursue increasingly dubious strategies when it comes to the exploitation of high-value data or handling the information security (or lack thereof) of high-value targets.