Michael Chertoff

By Josh Rushing in Americas on April 24th, 2010
Photo by Reuters

Did Michael Chertoff, former director of US homeland security, seriously suggest the possibility of responding with special forces to take out the servers of cyber-attackers?

In a recent interview for Fault Lines, I asked Chertoff  - who is now on the board of the world's largest arms dealer, BAE, and heads his own cyber-security consulting firm - if he could see the US responding to a cyber attack with kinetic force.