Winning A Cyber War -- A Commentary

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From The Wall Street Journal:

The 'soft underbelly' of U.S. security.

The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan experienced a cyber attack last month that took down its two largest Web sites. But that's small beer compared to what happened to the Pentagon and several other U.S. agencies in 2007, when cyber attackers successfully hacked into their computer systems, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates's email.

Welcome to the brave new world of cyber war, an area where the U.S. lacks the dominance it enjoys in traditional military arenas. President Obama's recent appointment of Melissa Hathaway to head a 60-day cyber security review is a sign that he is serious about stepping up the battle in cyber space.

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My Comment: The Cyber Universe is too big for any institution to police and/or regulate. Cyber attacks are now a fact of life. The best that we can do is to red-line (i.e. draw a line in the sand) on whatwill be perceived as an act of aggression from one country on another country's computer network.

When this Cyber-Dew Line is established .... the appropriate responses must then be outlined and made public to the other countries who are developing Cyberwar capabilities.