Are we talking "cyber war" like the Bush Administration talked WMDs?

George Mason University Mercatus Center researchers Jerry Brito and Tate Wakins believe the real cybersecurity problem is "threat inflation."

"The rhetoric of 'cyber doom'," Brito and Watkins write, "lacks clear evidence of a serious threat that can be verified by the public. As a result, the United States may be witnessing a bout of threat inflation similar to that seen in the run-up to the Iraq War. Additionally, a cyber-industrial complex is emerging, much like the military-industrial complex of the Cold War. This complex may serve to not only supply cybersecurity solutions to the federal government, but to drum up demand for them as well."