'Russians were responsible for hacking the DNC,' says Obama in final 2016 press conference

Personally, I’m very uncomfortable with the characterisation of non-destructive hacking as “warfare” or “attacks”.

Hacking the controls of a power station so it blows up: that’s cyberwarfare. Using hacks to reveal embarrassing information about a target: at most, that’s cyberespionage.

I think the terminology is important here. Language justifies wars.

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