Worrying about #cyberwar is making countries less safe
▻http://qz.com/305598/worrying-about-cyberwar-is-making-countries-less-safe
Rid and Lee argue that hype makes for bad policy. As defense budgets have shrunk, cyber is one area where funding has grown. That leads to perverse incentives, encouraging worry in order to gain and preserve funding. Since cyber is where the money is, all threats are re-labelled cyber-something. That means “it is ever harder to say when something clearly is not cyber-related,” the authors write.