Over response, they have heard
of it
The US military has decided that it is completely viable to stop a
cyber attack on the US by dropping a nuke on the hacker.
According to the
Stars and Stripes magazine, the US has said that a cyber attack would not
necessarily be limited to cyberspace. The head of U.S. Strategic Command Air
Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton said that the Law of Armed Conflict will apply to
this domain.
He said that how the country would respond to a cyber attack
would be decided by the president and Defense secretary and "no response was off
the table". Mostly Chilton was talking about dropping a bomb on the hacker
but whether or not that would be conventional or nuclear play load was also up
for grabs.
"You don't take any response options off the table from an attack
on the United States of America. Why would we constrain ourselves on how we
would respond? " he said.
The US military has adopted a policy of flinging
as much firepower at an enemy in the hope it would go away since the
Revolutionary war. Subtlety has not been a feature of
the US military mind. If a botnet can be destroyed with bombs it is going to
be, at least in the US mind.