> Over the long term I wonder if this will give Europe an edge in cybersecurity relative to the US?
It won't because the article is misleading wrt to the "European" approach, in that, there is no such agreed EU-wide approach. For example, this bit below:
> Bulgarian police last week released a 20-year-old security specialist accused of hacking the country’s National Revenue Agency, and accessing information about 5 million people, most of Bulgaria’s population
is actually just false. Bulgarian police released the guy on bail and then proceeded to charge him with cyber terrorism (15 years in prison). They also arrested his supervisor, issued a European Arrest Warrant for owner of the company he works for (who is apparently abroad on unrelated business) and raided the offices of the company, taking all computers and IT equipment and essentially destroying the business. It's currently unclear on what evidence they decided to nuke the company.
It won't because the article is misleading wrt to the "European" approach, in that, there is no such agreed EU-wide approach. For example, this bit below:
> Bulgarian police last week released a 20-year-old security specialist accused of hacking the country’s National Revenue Agency, and accessing information about 5 million people, most of Bulgaria’s population
is actually just false. Bulgarian police released the guy on bail and then proceeded to charge him with cyber terrorism (15 years in prison). They also arrested his supervisor, issued a European Arrest Warrant for owner of the company he works for (who is apparently abroad on unrelated business) and raided the offices of the company, taking all computers and IT equipment and essentially destroying the business. It's currently unclear on what evidence they decided to nuke the company.