Case in point: At this week's RSA security conference, Scott Borg, director and chief economist from the U.S. Cyber Consequence Unit think tank, declared that .

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This followed on the heels of a report by yet another DC think tank, the Bipartisan Policy Center, which held and concluded that if such a war were held today, the United States would have its virtual assets handed to it.

Testifying before Congress last week, former National Intelligence director Mike McConnell said if we were at cyber war, we'd lose -- badly. He did everything but force members of Congress to duck and cover under their desks :

If the nation went to war today, in a cyber war, we would lose. ...We're the most vulnerable. We're the most connected. We have the most to lose.