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Makes me wonder if we'll ever see a "hot" war that starts off as a "cyber" war.
by sgnelson 10y ago
Makes me wonder if we'll ever see a "hot" war that starts off as a "cyber" war.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoIf you see a hot war, under current circumstances it will almost certainly be preceded (if only for a few minutes) by a full-on cyber attack.
- Bartweiss 10y agoIt's an interesting arrangement. Launching a cyber war for its own sake might or might not escalate to a hot conflict, but a hot conflict would almost certainly be backed by the cyber version.
- a3n 10y agoSo in addition to debating launch on warning, we now have to think about launch on DDoS.
- knappe 10y agoThis has already happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_Russo-Georgian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_Russo-...
- Zigurd 10y agoThe start of every US war in the ME has featured attacks on communication and infrastructure, starting with hacking in to the telephone exchanges weeks or months before the hot war starts, and culminating with the takedown of critical physical infrastructure, like power, water, etc. as the first thing to go when the shooting starts.
- linkregister 10y agoCan you clarify this? I remember seeing some articles about this tactic in maybe 2010, but nothing before then. I recall the Gulf War and OIF/OEF infrastructure damage being primarily from aerial bombing, but it's possible I missed the articles about the hacking element. I'm not doing the snarky "citations pls" thing; I don't dispute it happened. I just want to know more.
- Zigurd 10y agoI can't find the article I read at the time. The gist of it was that a sysadmin was bribed to gain access to the telephone exchanges and once the Iraqi government realized they were compromised they ran expedient unburied fiber links to communicate with commanders.