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counterattack
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Attacking an attacker. Even though a criminal hacker or other agent is attempting to penetrate a security perimeter or damage systems, the counterattack must not violate applicable laws.


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Penetrations of the main battle area received priority of all fires, and if fire alone did not eliminate the advancing enemy, local infantry reserves counterattacked the penetration in the flanks while heavy supporting fires isolated the penetration by a curtain of fire behind it.
With one of their own facing a crucial moment Thursday, Democrats counterattacked Tuesday with a probe of the Schwarzenegger administration's use of federal anti-terrorism funds as part of new tactics in an intensifying partisan war, analysts said.
In a great show of righteous indignation, I counterattacked.
 
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