Reply to post: Re: Britain's " muted line about its offensive cyber capabilites"

En garde! 'Cyber-war has begun' – and France will hack first, its defence sec declares

Tom Paine

Re: Britain's " muted line about its offensive cyber capabilites"

what benefit is there in boasting/threatening like the French do?

For the same reason nuclear states are generally quite happy to have that status be publicly known. Its not much of a deterrent if the adversary only finds out you have an ICBM capability when you launch an all-out retaliatory strike in response to their incoming wave of surprise attack warheads, is it now?

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