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CYBER WARFARE - 12/16/2016 10:02:55 AM

vincentML

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Heard on a Telly interview former CIA Director James Woolsley confirmed that America has been in a cyber war for at least the past five years. It is really naive for the Trump fans to claim the election attacks were not real or needed further proof. Attribution is the most difficult part of cyber war, but the CIA has identified Russia as culprit with a high confidence, which is as good as you are going to get.

Basically, cyber war occurs in two moods: spying and sabotage. From Forbes:

Cyber warfare is going to target any sensitive industry in your opponent's infrastructure. This means obvious stuff like the military and defense and weapons manufacturers. It also means stuff like civilian factories that make weapons, mines, and other resource manufacturers that help those factories operate, and the national power grid that gives all of the above its necessary electricity.

In its scariest incarnation, cyber warfare could target the most important strategic asset a country has: its population. In this way, you could launch terrorist attacks meant to destabilize or dishearten that population from fighting. This means doing scary things like hitting major financial sectors and causing economic damage to the country's economy (think about what things would be like if the NASDAQ unexpectedly shut down) and abruptly terminating public communication (think what would happen if the national cell networks all terminated and the internet went down).

Why does it threaten society?

I think cyber warfare is scary for two reasons:

Strategic cyber warfare does not distinguish between civilians and military: Just like nuclear weapons in the cold war, cyber weapons are just as likely to be targeting civilian resources as they are military ones. While a nuke is obviously way more damaging than a piece of malware is alone, a cyberattack can cause civilian casualties and deaths.

A great example of this is an attack on the national power grid. The national power grid is an obvious strategic resource for the US. If you took down the power grid through a cyber attack (something the US is rightfully concerned about), you would not just stop factories from building guns. You would also cause traffic accidents, interrupt surgeries, stop life-giving machines such as iron lungs, and basically just kill a whole mess of people across the country.

So, how safe is your money? How important are your internet and smart phone connections? Have any family on oxygen compressors? How dependent are you on the electric grid?

Trumpsters need to get their heads out of the sand hole of denial. This is serious shit. Obama has said he will strike back at Russia despite Trump's dismissal of the threat (my words) Do you think Obama is right to do so? Do you have any faith that the Trumper will continue cyber vigilance and retaliation?

Your thoughts . . .

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vML

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ MLK Jr.