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Lindsey Graham: “Would you consider a cyber attack generated from the People's Liberation Army of China against our national security…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2012
Would you consider a cyber attack generated from the People's Liberation Army of China against our national security infrastructure, should that be considered a hostile act?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham questions the classification of cyber attacks as hostile acts.

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