New policies will also govern how the intelligence agencies can carry out searches of faraway computer networks for signs of potential attacks on the United States and, if the president approves, attack adversaries by injecting them with destructive code — even if there is no declared war.

That’s The New York Times reporting on new Pentagon guidelines for using cyberweaponry. “Searches of faraway computer networks” is a good euphemism for what just happened to the NYT itself.

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