What is a cyberweapon?

["Gieseman, Daniel J [ITRNS]" <dgiesema () iastate edu>]

My take on what Dave is saying is that things like reliable exploits, malicious scripts, etc are not cyber weapons per 
se, not any more than a bullet is a weapon.   It is only when the bullet becomes part of a "system-with-intent", does 
it become "weaponized".



I think I see the difference, and when you look at things from that level of abstraction, threats and how you mitigate 
appear differently.   Example: countering the institutional actor (e.g. the "system-with-intent" in this case) will 
yield better degradation and denial response than merely detecting and armoring yourself from any "bullets" being fired.



However, this begs the question, what do you do when your institutional adversary is not a Swedish Server Farm, but a 
state actor not easily degraded?



Perhaps an over-simplification, but I couldn't resist chiming in.



D.




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