Why are cyber attacks like the one recently in the news by China not seen as as acts of war?
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The definition of “Act of War” is flexible and unique to each country.
Countries have long, much before cyber even existed, did all sorts of attacks, border skirmishes, raids, economic/trade changes, assassinations, spying, sabotage whatever to each other since antiquity
It needs to reach a certain threshold before you’re willing to go to war over it. In our modern world, that bar is generally quite high.
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