The result is that the United States makes use of this incredibly powerful new weapon largely in secret, on a case-by-case basis, before we fully understand its consequences. Acts that the United States calls “cyber network exploitations” when conducted by American forces are often called “cyberattacks” when American citizens are the target. That word has come to encompass everything from disabling the grid, to manipulating an election, to worrying about that letter arriving in the mail warning that someone—maybe criminals, maybe the Chinese—just grabbed our credit cards, Social Security
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