Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war

There’s a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the U.S. will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line “is whatever the President says it is,” according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.

Nakasone, speaking during an RSA Conference keynote on Wednesday with three other former NSA directors and commanders of U.S. Cyber Command, argued that there shouldn’t be a well-defined red line. “The president should have a lot of leeway in which he determines whether or not the nation’s going to respond kinetically.”

Retired US Navy Admiral Mike Rogers, on the other hand, said he thinks there should be a “series of minimums, like loss of life, loss of infrastructure associated with health and well being.”

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