Obama stated that if any nation conducted cyber attacks against the USA that such attacks constituted an "act of war."<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/05/the-white-house-and-pentagon-deem-cyber-attacks-an-act-of-war/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/05/the-white...</a><p>Funny how the double standard rears its ugly head from time to time...
>“The Department of Defense does engage” in computer network exploitation, according to an e-mailed statement from an NSA spokesman, whose agency is part of the Defense Department. “The department does <i></i><i>not</i><i></i> engage in economic espionage in any domain, including cyber.”<p>Why not? It would be effective.