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Re:Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught by boomboomsubban on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:06AM (#25465234)
If your goal is fewer attacks,launching your own is a terrible method of achieving your goal. Even if you stop all the "enemy" attacks that doesn't mean the number has decreased.
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Re:Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught by hodgesrm on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:49PM (#25472482)
Deterrence is a time-honored strategy. As the Romans liked to say, "if you want peace, prepare for war." It tends to prevent adversaries from miscalculating, a proximal cause of many a bloody conflict.
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Re:Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught by boomboomsubban on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:51PM (#25473062)
Launching attacks isn't deterrence. Even if your general philosophy were correct, which I disagree with, it is not one of peacefully promoting democracy and liberty.
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