I still think we shouldn’t use the term warfare for anything cyber. Neither the term terrorism.
Even if state-sponsored or gouvernmental actors are behind hackings, DoS and the likes, I still think these are criminal acts, and need to be prosecuted by means which are well outside warfare.
I vividly remember the NATO Secretary General writing a strong op-ed statement for a militarization of the internet in a major economic news outlet I read the day before Edward Snowden came public in Hong Kong. I don’t buy into this newspeak: regardless of the criminal’s background, their intentions it is not war. I object to the broadening of the definition, as I fear the consequences.
