Cyber Command began planting crippling malware inside the Russian system at a depth and with an aggressiveness that had never been tried before. For years the United States had been among the stealthiest players in the digital realm, but now we were making a show of our power, letting Russia know that if they dared flip the switch here, we would reciprocate. There were some who believed that after years of getting beaten up and blacked out in the digital domain, these attacks were long overdue. Others worried that the United States was effectively enshrining the grid as a legitimate target,
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