Most concerning—as the Bloomberg Businessweek article suggests—is that nations like the US may be ill-prepared to defend themselves from a really potent cyber invasion. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan, puts it best for Bloomberg Businessweek:

The problem is that whatever we do, the response to it won’t come back at the government, it’ll come back at the 85 percent of networks in America that are in the private sector. And they are already having a difficult time keeping up.

 

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