Col. Jack Jacobs: Sony Hack Was ‘More than Vandalism but Not Quite Terrorism’

“It's more than vandalism, but not quite terrorism. You know, the North Koreans, Chinese, and other governments have whole organizations whose sole purpose in life is to steal American secrets, secrets from businesses, secrets from the government. All of our data is at risk and we don't have a very good way of protecting against it. Ironically, the more interconnected we are, the more sophisticated we are, the more vulnerable we are …

It’s like Australian football, there are no rules, yet … If you are going to counter attack, you have to be extremely sophisticated. We have a lot of stuff at risk. The grid, for example, medical devices, things we haven’t thought about. It’s something we have to work on."