Pentagon Cyber Strategy - Ready to Bombard Hackers

The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war in its formal cyber strategy. The concerns come from the so called changing security threats where a hacker could attack U.S. nuclear reactors, subways or pipelines as a hostile country’s military. That is to say that a hacker group is to be considered as a military target and destroyed with military means and methods of warfare.

Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon intends its plan to be a warning to potential enemies of the consequences of attacking the U.S. “If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks,” said a military official.

The actual issue here is how the U.S. Military can ever be certain about an attack’s origin, and what are the methods to be used in order to define when computer sabotage is threatening national security interests so that to constitute an act of war.

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