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The Pentagon is readying a new strategy that would treat cyberattacks from a foreign nation as acts of war.

The quote that caught my attention was the military official who told The Wall Street Journal: "If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks."

That’s all very well, but what would that particular official say if Iran â€" which believes Israel and the U.S. to be behind the Stuxnet cyberworm that sabotaged its nuclear program â€" applied the same logic and felt entitled to strike back by putting a missile down an American or Israeli smokestack?

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