Charles Dunlap, a retired Air Force JAG general:

I think the norm is evolving.

Mike Rogers:

I think we can work our way through this.

Alex Tabarrok:

Democracy constrains what governments do but it's a thin constraint easily capable of being pierced when stressed.

Devlin Barrettt and Danny Yadron:

Officials still are debating what lessons to learn from the attack and its aftermath. The administration seems to acknowledge more information needs to flow both ways.

Most of those who discussed the incident agree on one other matter. They expect other hackers to draw lessons from what happened to Sony, becoming more aggressive in how they target companies and the demands they make.

Charles Dunlap, a retired Air Force JAG general:

Some of those [non-uniformed] people might not realize it, but they are belligerents, they are targetable, and they are targetable in the same basis as active duty military.

The Economist:

"It became clear that no matter how ready you think you are, you are never ready enough," notes a draft report jointly compiled by the Estonian authorities and Microsoft.

Steven Bellovin:

We don't even have the right words.