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I'm not entirely sure why driving a tank across a border is materially different to "driving code" across a digital border. Personally I'm less concerned about

I'm not entirely sure why driving a tank across a border is materially different to "driving code" across a digital border. Personally I'm less concerned about the tank. It's obvious and easy to risk assess. I don't get why countries don't have any significant, and honestly out sized, response to hacking and spying. The damage that is/can be done is outrageous.

aragonite 3y ago
> I'm not entirely sure why driving a tank across a border is materially different to "driving code" across a digital border. Cyberattacks are much more analogous to traditional episonage than acts of war. States don't regard episonage as acts of war because it's something engaged in by all sides and which literally happens all the time, unlike tanks rolling across the border. Politicians of course like to pretend otherwise ... I was reminded of this, shall we say, breath-taking question I saw Rep. Haley Stevens asking recently on cspan :) https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5105488/user-clip-do-department-focused-cyberattacks https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5105488/user-clip-do-departme... > So we shouldn't consider cyberattacks warfare? I mean, what are they doing over there? Do they have a department that is just focused on cyberattacks? 'Coz this is, sort of, in some respects, hard to wrap our heads around, right? I mean, we don't …