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by brazzledazzle 3524 days ago
God I fucking hope not. I'd much rather lose access to some services and focus on technical mitigations than literally start a war over it. I don't want me or my family to die just because services go down or businesses lose some income.
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Like it or not, that's happening and next year when Clinton comes in the office, that will be the among the first things it comes to. Mark this comment.

Why ? Because business.

I am not sure you will think the same if someone in your family is at the local hospital and the electricity has been shut down
I think I must have missed some context here or misread since an attack on an electrical grid is substantially different from disrupting major web services.
I'm not sure you've seen eighth graders who are unable to watch Netflix.