tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post1531633798908333561..comments2023-08-26T05:04:33.009-04:00Comments on anti-virus rants: making sense of the cyberwar debatekurt wismerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03810635947269551517noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post-20649358069691847572010-08-26T17:51:19.312-04:002010-08-26T17:51:19.312-04:00glad you enjoyed the post. it seems there's ye...glad you enjoyed the post. it seems there's yet another angle to the cyberwar debate that has come to light recently.<br /><br />it appears some of the public facing folks in the military are so out of touch with common computer threats that they'll attribute a simple USB worm spreading over their systems due to profound negligence as if it were the result of some foreign intelligence agency targeting their systems.<br /><br />when these sorts of folks cry cyberwar it's almost exactly like chicken little running around exclaiming that the sky is falling.kurt wismerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03810635947269551517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7347279.post-37909629073018613082010-08-26T16:21:52.048-04:002010-08-26T16:21:52.048-04:00Hi Kurt,
Yours is actually one of the better post...Hi Kurt,<br /><br />Yours is actually one of the better posts on this topic that I have come across because you disect some of the nuances between the lines.<br /><br />I have noticed that often in these discussions that it is a matter of degree. Sure industrial espionage may be a battle for livelihoods as opposed to lives and has always existed, but how much can an economy be nickel and dimed on such a grand scale until at some point they can no longer afford the price of admission to the main event? The break-up of the USSR was helped along by economic factors stemming from an arms race, for example. There is a economic cost to espionage, and winners and losers.<br /><br />It is also well known that the motivation for the Chinese is to use "cyber" techniques as an equalizer against adversaries that currently would overwhelm in conventional warfare, hence we have other forms of espionage re: APT and for the enablement of influence peddling etc..<br /><br />I suppose things get get even murkier if we tried to define suppression of people's rights within a single country as a form of cyberwar (Iran-cyberwar fared on democracy and freedom of speech) with on-line censorship used as a form of "cyber" douchery.<br /><br />Anyway, I enjoyed the post.Rob Lewishttp://www.trustifier.comnoreply@blogger.com