Even as the Russian hackers stole reams upon reams of data, they weren’t using their access to military networks to sabotage or corrupt those systems. There was no sign that they were seeking to disrupt or deceive U.S. command and control to gain the kind of tactical advantage Arquilla and Ronfeldt had described. And they certainly weren’t reaching out into the physical world to cause lethal mayhem and blackouts. But Moonlight Maze did demonstrate that state-sponsored hackers could gain far deeper and broader access than many in the U.S. government had thought possible. And next time, they
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