“The U.S. needs to respond in a smart, considered manner. Shutting off the lights in Moscow isn’t an appropriate or proportional response. Disrupting the networks of the SVR or GRU—Russian military intelligence—may well be.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cyber-threat-is-real-and-growing-11608484291
“For the time being, the Russian effort seems limited to intelligence collection. But to move from the intelligence collection mode to an attack mode would only require flipping a couple of switches...”

Cyberwar fail-safe? https://bit.ly/2WGlkOR 
“The hackers managed their intrusion from servers inside the United States, exploiting legal prohibitions on the National Security Agency from engaging in domestic surveillance and eluding cyberdefenses deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.”
Avoiding forward deployed beacons on foreign networks by positioning their C2 servers and channels inside the US leveraged the “wedge” in US foreign and domestic intelligence gathering. All they had to worry about was DHS, which would represent a bug on their windshield.
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