cyber warfare

As most regular readers here know, I view "most things digital" with a very jaundiced and skeptical eye. I suppose that's because I'm a […]
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It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make me suddenly recall the cloak-and-dagger story of a close Iranian-American friend nine years ago. My friend, an engineer — who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will call ‘Kourosh’ for the purpose of this article — revealed to me in 2010 that he was approached […]

One of the dangers of inward military and ‘defense’ subcultures is that it can easily become polluted with political thinking, whereby its members become marinated in their own state and institutional propaganda. In the case of NATO member states, this means that for last decade at least, it’s become an institutional imperative to view everything as a potential threat from the ‘enemy’. Presently, the enemy de jour is Russia. We all remember the Cold War years when the ultimate ‘threat’ was always a nuclear first strike.

Apropos of today's main blog, Mr. H.B. and many other people (thank you to you all), shared this story: Cash "Vanishes" From Bank Accounts
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This has been an unusual week for articles, especially on the subject of cyber warfare, for a number of people sent me articles about…
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Who hacks the hackers?
Bloomberg’s Hello World host Ashlee Vance traveled to Moscow and got a rare glimpse into the heart of Russia’s hacker underworld and the latest techniques in investigating cyber crime. Watch:

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Decades ago, philosopher Marshall McLuhan predicted a future world war fought using information. While World War I and World War II were waged using armies and mobilized economies, “World War III [will be] a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation,” McLuhan said, a prophecy included in his 1970 book of reflections, Culture Is Our Business.

In my News and Views from the Nefarium last Thursday (Jan 11th), I prefaced my remarks about the Franco-Chinese summit by pointing out that…
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Remember those U.S. warships that were rammed by other ships this past year? The USS Fitzgerald and the USS John McCain incidents? For that…
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Next up: FeDCoin, if the Washington Post is correct... but as always, caveat emptor!
The Washington Post Propagandizes Again: Says 'Fedcoin' Will Be 'Bigger'…
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