Can you elaborate on that?

Look at every single sportsball event where the losing team had > 0 points. Same thing. Has there ever been a "war" with 0 casualties on the winning side?

There's also a quote from Prez in The Wire, "Nobody wins. One team just loses more slowly"

Anglo-Zanzibar war lasted about 40 minutes and saw 0 British casualties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

except this isn't a game of sports and a private company doesn't gain anything from attempting to "hack back" a foreign adversary. It just costs them resources and makes them an even larger target. And given that those adversaries are in all likelihood state sponsored the actual opponent is the US government, which is abdicating their responsibility.

It's like saying "the police doesn't care any more citizen, so you know just punch back". It's also incredibly dangerous btw to tell private firms they have the authority to engage in what is basically an act of warfare.

Why do you think they are likely state actors versus script kiddies.

What are you “scoring” though. US firm loses data, has downtime, lost revenues, etc. If they attack back, what damages are they doing that they even care about? Seems to me they just are asking to be continually targeted.

Also, why burn the resources? Attacking isn’t free.