"Report: Countries preparing for cyberwar"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/17/cnet.cyberwar.internet/index.html
This whole concept seems far too abstract, obscure and futuristic for me to comprehend. Cyberwarfare? From what I can make of the article, cyberwar may possibly include espionage, shutting down enemy country's abilities to use the internet for communication, and hacking in to systems to be used against the system's commanding country. Maybe it's the lack of bombs, guns and other forms of physical attack that throws me off; I keep picturing stuffy business men of the cyber age dressed in suit and tie, hurling computer equipment at each other. All my crazy visions aside though, this newfound war tactic seems more deadly than its predecessors not because of the power of its physical explosion, but because of its power to infiltrate and disturb the mind - the true essence and master of war even before any guns are fired or bombs dropped. Judging from my confusion, seems like the war has already begun.
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Dear Trisha -
ReplyDeleteWe are not "stuffy business men of the cyber age dressed in suit and tie, hurling computer equipment at each other." Please keep your comment politically correct, that was very offensive.