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Good Good Let the Hate flow through ! A cyber-security cold war would be the best thing to happen to the CS industry and a lot better than real wars.

• Alupis 11y ago
  > and a lot better than real wars Instead of people dying, everyone just loses all their credit and savings. That is until someone shuts down a dam and opens all the flood gates, or shuts off the power grid to a city, shut down airport flight tracking (or make planes show up where they are not), etc. Cyber war seems almost scarier than a "real" war - because it almost exclusively targets civilians instead of combatants.
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  • viraptor 11y ago
    It depends how you look at it. If what you listed is possible to do, then it's possible to do right now - no war is needed. If people really expect such actions, then security will finally stop being an afterthought. Credit cards and savings are already being stolen. Industrial controls are not yet taken over, (ignoring one-offs like stux) but they're definitely not controlled very well (have a look at the project which scanned the internet for exposed VNC). While flight tracking is isolated, false flight plans already stopped take-offs for some time. Sure, governments can go much further than anyone has so far. But if we start to really think about it and protect systems for that possibility - great!