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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by lordnacho on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:57AM (#17372763)
I think you'll find quite a few people would find it is quite a stretch.

The attack was planned by a group that wasn't the internationally recognized leadership of any country, and they hid in a war-torn country whose government was being violently contested. And the Taliban were also not recognized, at least not officially, as the leadership of Afghanistan.

So to call it an act of war is indeed a stretch.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by bergoid on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:17AM (#17372852)
I think the idea of "asymmetric warfare" is well established and it fits totally your description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare

Sure, there will always be people who think this not "real" war. But that's an irrelevant classification detail to the belligerents or the people caught up in the collateral damage.

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