The U.S. is planning to strike back at Russia and send “a message” to Moscow with “the greatest impact.” Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. retaliation against Russian cyberattacks would be covert. “We’re sending a message. We have the capacity to do it. And the message—he’ll know it,” Biden said.
After three months of accusations that Russia is seeking to influence the U.S. presidential election with a cyber-hacking campaign, the U.S. is planning to strike back and send “a message” to Moscow with “the greatest impact.”
In an Oct. 16 interview on the NBC show Meet the Press, Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. retaliation against Russian cyberattacks would be covert. The United States’ two main weapons against such cyber intrusions are sanctions and a reciprocal cyberattack, but sanctions are never covert and of dubious impact. So it seems likely from Biden’s remarks the U.S. is planning a…
