Flutterby™! : Chertoff wants to escalate cyberwar

Michael Chertoff gives justification to Iran for having nuclear weapons by proposing that deterrence as practiced in nuclear detente should be applied to "cyberware":

"If you have a persistent series of attacks on critical national infrastructure, then you could make the argument that incapacitating the platform used to attack is something that you have to do," Chertoff told ZDNet UK. "If you take the rule that attacks against critical infrastructure enable you to take action against that proximate platform, that would give countries an incentive to take action to secure their platforms."

Now I'm all for going nuclear against Windows users, but I think this dude's off his rocker.