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What a cop out. First you said the US launched the first cyber warfare attack.
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reading comprehension fail. Where did I say that? Here are my posts related to this statement in sequential order.
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us govt opened up pandora's box by weaponizing the internet.
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nope. you dont have to use those offensive capabilities like the US did with stuxnet. Its like saying that since the US has nuclear weapons than they should go ahead and use it.
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Although the US could gather cyber weapons, using them such as they have with stuxnet and Flame lead to the arms-race.
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That is the same with cyberweapons deployed by Operation Olympic Games.
you are going to be hard pressed to find a deployment of a cyberweapon by a nation state before that time frame. |
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That being said, there is no evidence of a cyberattack similar to stuxnet prior to stuxnet.
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your linked wikipedia article deals with espionage.
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A 2008 article in the Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies by Jason Fritz alleges that the Chinese government from 1995 to 2008 was involved in a number of high profile cases of espionage
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Mariom-Webster (your favorite dictionary) defines espionage as
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the things that are done to find out secrets from enemies or competitors : the activity of spying
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that is far different than an "attack" which they
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to act violently against (someone or something) : to try to hurt, injure, or destroy (something or someone)
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Originally Posted by patteeu
BTW, I don't care whether one person said cyber warfare is an act of war and then a different person said it isn't. As far as I'm concerned, that's an attempt to deflect from the issue.
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Not at all. US claimed earlier that cyberwarfare is an act of war. Thus the consequences of it would be a physical retaliation. By doing this themselves against Iran and declaring that it isnt an act of war, than they legitimized it for other nations.