Over on the Volokh Conspiracy blog at this link, Stuart Baker argues: "If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar."  Hs point is that:

"So when an attack occurs, if it’s successful, some of those defenses will fail.  Some citizens will spend days, weeks, maybe months, without power or phones or water or access to their bank.  We’ll be at war, under attack, hurting.  We’ll look to the Commander in Chief.

"And he’ll look pretty much the way President Obama does today.

"Helpless.

"He won’t be able to send troops to protect, say, Verizon’s network.  His troops mostly don’t have the skills, and if they do have the skills, they don’t know the network.  Even if a company has screwed up badly, failing to adopt basic backup and malware protections, he’ll have to defer to the idiots who got us into the mess until they find a way to get us out."

Over on the Volokh Conspiracy blog at this link, Stuart Baker argues: "If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar."  Hs point is that:

"So when an attack occurs, if it’s successful, some of those defenses will fail.  Some citizens will spend days, weeks, maybe months, without power or phones or water or access to their bank.  We’ll be at war, under attack, hurting.  We’ll look to the Commander in Chief.

"And he’ll look pretty much the way President Obama does today.

"Helpless.

"He won’t be able to send troops to protect, say, Verizon’s network.  His troops mostly don’t have the skills, and if they do have the skills, they don’t know the network.  Even if a company has screwed up badly, failing to adopt basic backup and malware protections, he’ll have to defer to the idiots who got us into the mess until they find a way to get us out."