Quote Originally Posted by Aquagraph View Post
“A cyber attack on the U.S. could be met with a conventional military response.”
– chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin E. Dempsey

If a "cyber attack" is something that can be seen as an initiation of aggression, aren't most Western governments in war with their own citizens?

NSA has even named it's covert programs after civil war battles. Namely Bullrun and Manassas. Also GCHQ (NSA's British counter-part) has named it's program similair to bullrun as Edgehill (A battle in First English Civil War).
The US and UK governments have been in a cold war with outbreaks of violence with their own citizens for hundreds of years. We've just got to educate the continentals to understand that government is bad.