Obama doesn't believe the Sony hack was an act of war
30 Dec 2014 • engadget.comIf you were worried that the US government would see the Sony Pictures hack as grievous enough to prompt a larger conflict with North Korea, you can relax. President Obama tells CNN that he doesn’t see the digital assault as an “act of war” – it was a serious instance of “cybervandalism,” but that’s it.
Thank goodness. Last thing we need to do is to continue to expand the realm of things that are “acts of war” and therefore excuses for us to do terrible things to other humans in other places just because their jackets don’t read “Team America”.