how often is this happening? oh, gosh. we are at a daily battle level. this is like the u.s. navy submarine service, the silent service. every day there are professionals in the government and private sector who get up and do cyber battle, monitoring, patrolling, pushing back, retaliating, planting seeds, seeing where the next attack is coming from. this is the new battlefield, and until american corporations and the government get their act together and raise the notch, we re going to be behind the 8 ball. talk to me about those battle plans because at the top you said if we launch an attack, part of what we would need to be prepared are is a counterattack. what are the other options that are on the table? yeah, you know, for as long as we had a department of defense, we had battle plans. if china moves into taiwan, we do this. if north korea does this to south korea, we do this and this. we don t have sophisticated, planned-out battle plans for all of this.
we re going to be behind the 8 ball. at the top you said if we launch an attack, part of what we would need to be prepared are if a counterattack. what are the other options that are on the table? yeah, you know, for as long as we had a department of defense, we had battle plans. if china moves into taiwan, we do this. if north korea does this to south korea, we do this and this. we don t have sophisticated, planned-out battle plans for all of this. and again, i come back to saying the american people may not be ready for it. so what are the options? look, sanctions really haven t worked. there s not much higher you can go with the sanctions we re doing. one component of response has to be target the criminals and the government officials personally. make it painful to be that hacker, that malware criminal. what does that look like? fry their electronic communications in place in russia, make it impossible for them to use their tools, shut them down, block their money,