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Should a targeted country strike back at the cyber attackers?
05/11/2010
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Dancho Danchev - May 10, 2010
On a regular basis, political sentiments over the use of kinetic/nuclear weapons or offensive cyber warfare capabilities against cyber adversaries, reemerge internationally, as a desperate response to the threat, largely based on the outdated situational awareness of the person making them.
The situation becomes even worse when these people are either directly participating in the chain of command for a particular country, or have political bargaining power that can undermine the common sense brought in by those in the trenches of cyber operations.
Excluding the political sentiments, attempting to use a kinetic force against a physical targeted believed to be the location of the cyber attacker, as well as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, is a very bad idea.
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