Comment Re:Yeah I don't buy it. (Score 1) 461
No. I insist that the adjective "Cyber" before the word "Attack" should indicate the means, not the target
A well-written post may indicate a command of the English language, but that command only goes so far.
If we accept this meaning of Cyber Attack, then that means that an airplane that drops a bomb on an ISP is a "Cyber Attack", while bombing any other form of infrastructure would be a "regular attack".
Not at all. Bombing an Army base is a military attack. Bombing a banking district is a financial attack. Bombing the highways is an infrastructure attack.
Bruce's whole point here is that if we think of cyber defense as making the internet stronger, were missing the big picture. It's not about securing the internet, it's about securing our entire communications infrastructure. The internet is just the brightest star there, but in an emergency it's not the internet per se that's required, but the ability for people to communicate.
