By John Cole June 1st, 2012
The most interesting thing about the Stuxnet story Mistermix discussed this morning is how long after a country openly admitted they had launched a cyberattack on a nuclear plant here in the United States would it be before we started bombing? And before the idiot apologists start chiming in about how I should go vote for Romney because hed be worse or your usual shithouse lawyer nonsense, that is our official policy. You launch a cyberattack against us, we will respond however the f**k we want:
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A damaging attack on the United States that comes via the Internet could be punished with missiles and bombs, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.
A Defense Department strategy for cybersecurity, to be released in June, points to the idea that attacks in cyber would be viewed the same way that attacks in a kinetic form are now, said Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan.
Unidentified military officials who spoke on background to The Wall Street Journal for a story in Tuesdays editions were even more explicit.
If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks, one official told the paper.
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So how many of you would find it acceptable for Iran to launch a missile at us in retaliation for our joint stuxnet cyberattack? Theyd just be playing by our rules.
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