US Says It’ll Respond to Online Attacks with Offline Warfare
Up until now, the Pentagon’s been concerned with how best to out-hack hostile hackers. Counter-cyberwarfare. But that’s changed—the military’s decided digital attacks can be considered acts of war, with bombs, not bits, dropped in return, the WSJ reports. One anonymous military official puts it pretty damn succinctly: “If you shut down our power grid, maybe…