�Cyberwar, Stuxnet and People in Glass Houses� :����� Information Clearing House: ICH

�Cyberwar, Stuxnet and People in Glass Houses� :����� Information Clearing House: ICH: "Headlines this week were provided courtesy of the Pentagon's first formal cyber strategy document which concluded 'that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war', and 'opens the door for the US to respond using traditional military force'.

The same article carried a widely repeated (but not clearly attributed) quote from a military official who glibly said: 'If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks.'

To many who work in information security, the threat of a full military response to a cyber offensive seems disproportional - especially when many pundits were claiming that cyberwar was not even a real threat - so where did this come from and what does it mean?"