State-linked hackers are increasingly targeting critical sectors with no signs of stopping.

NATO countries’ restrained response to hybrid attacks is at odds with public opinion, new polling shows: Broad swaths of the public in key allied countries say actions such as cyberattacks on hospitals should be considered acts of war.

The POLITICO Poll, conducted in the United States, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, showed a majority of people agreed that a cyberattack that shuts down hospitals or power grids constitutes an act of war. Canadians felt the strongest about the issue, with 73 percent agreeing.

Respondents from all five countries also rallied behind the idea that sabotaging undersea cables or energy pipelines — which has occurred more frequently in recent years — should be considered be an act of war.

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    2 days ago

    Probably the same thing they thought when they were training and arming fascist terrorist groups throughout Europe…

    “…We’re the good guys. He he he he.”

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      What are you referring to? I’m not familiar with nato training and arming fascists in europe. The US does it in latin america plenty, or has and soon will again. But we don’t normally call non europeans fascist I suppose even when it fits.

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          Oh jesus I forgot about that, didn’t recall how extensive it was I had heard something about this in Italy but not all the details.

          It’s never been more clear we do need all new leadership, not the least in our bureaucracies, we are supporting them all because the president of the US has been on his deep state thing, trying to make them even worse in his service, so we support everything about them, it’s incredibly frustrating this dynamic plays out everywhere. All federal agencies are failing in their statutory duties, captured by malign interests, and the democrats will never free them, they were chosen not to free them.

          The CIA and their intelligence partners have been perhaps amongst the worst, with everything they’ve done, and we’ve a weapon to take them all down and remake the agency if we could retake the country, in the Epstein scandal. The CIA aided and abbetted a foreign intelligence agency to compromise our politicians and other swells, and to blackmail them with it. Executable offenses to hear the president talk about treason, and that’s what this is, of the highest order, or its facsimile in US law.