Defense Department: Cyber-attacks may provoke military response

Well if there's one thing to take for certain in this situation: Hackers < Guns.  While phones are being tracked and social network attitudes are being monitored, The Pentagon has declared when other options to tackle cyber-attackers prove ineffective they will turn to military action.  This comes from a report made public on Tuesday, stating that internet-based attacks upon US governmental, military or economical bodies will receive the same counter-offensive force as it's tangible attack counterparts.