What About Retaliation?

What about retaliation on the part of people like the the nsa in americay? I mean, that its kind of thatis that is mooted. So far it has never happened. That would be an unprecedented situationand i guess the world would then be in an open state of cyper warfare. There's no eva convention for on line warfare, for carrying out strikes and counter strikes on line. And so it's like, what about retaliation? Yes, that would certainly be a way to disincentivize things. But that first strike has not yet happened. And it's kind of like a chicken and egg situation. You need to have the fight before you can set the