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June 5, 2011

The Pentagon will treat cyberattacks as acts of war—but how will it identify the enemy?

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By David Talbot, Technology Review

The Pentagon will soon release a strategy that formalizes a long-articulated position: the United States reserves the right to launch conventional attacks in response to the cyber kind. But figuring out who is behind such attacks may be difficult, or impossible. “To say that cyberattacks can be acts of war, and that they can be met by kinetic responses, simply confirms a longstanding Department of Defense consensus,” says Stewart Baker, a lawyer who was policy chief at the Department of Homeland Security for part of the Bush administration. “Neither of those statements make a strategy, however.”

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