Word: cyberwars
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...fought on computers, how long before the military says there is an information gap? Dr. Strangelove is going online." MIKE MCCORMICK Sunland, California YOUR ARTICLE ON CYBERWAR WAS FASCINATING [COVER, Aug. 21]. Much of it may have sounded like sci-fi to the average Joe or Jane, but the concept that someone can reach out and touch you personally through information warfare and alter your life by manipulating bank accounts, credit cards and other records is much more concrete and frightening than war games involving Iranian hackers. RICHARD R. TAMESIS Omaha, Nebraska Via America Online...
...MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY in a potential cyberwar isn't the Iranians, Iraqis, Russians or even the Japanese. It is Americans. The emerging cyberpunk culture has already demonstrated the capability to disrupt our lives and make headlines via electronics. If a computer virus turns out to be the cheapest, easiest and most efficient weapon for terrorists, they will use one. The end result could be equivalent to a terrorist nuclear weapon. The scary thing is that all the tools needed are in place today. JAY THOMAS Princeton, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...CYBERWAR? DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. Whenever it arrives, America can win hands down. By that time, our three- and four-year-olds, who now play video war games, will be ready. They'll never even know why they're so good at violence, anger and computer warfare. But this aptitude is even now being embedded in their unconscious. And you can forget about all that intelligence stuff and fancy combat gear like that you showed. It's already obsolete. These kids surely are not going to get dirty just to fight a war. James Cooper Shaker Heights, Ohio...
...cyberwar revolution, however, poses serious problems for the U.S. Some are ethical: Is it a war crime to crash another country's stock market? More perilous are the security concerns for the U.S., where a tyrant with inexpensive technology could unplug NASDAQ or terrorist hackers could disrupt an airport tower. Giddy excitement over infowar may be shaken by an electronic Pearl Harbor. Last year the government's Joint Security Commission called U.S. vulnerability to infowar "the major security challenge of this decade and possibly the next century...
...potential for low-cost and bloodless resolution of conflicts brings with it other problems. Army chaplains recently met to consider the moral implications of cyberwar--fearing, for example, that in lightning-quick electronic attacks, an enemy that wanted to surrender would never have the chance. Treaties may have to be rewritten before chemicals are used to tag enemy soldiers for aerial sensors or biological agents are deployed to eat electronics. Knocking out a stock exchange may seem attractive at first glance, but Washington is reluctant to engage in financial fiddling for the same reason it avoids assassination of foreign leaders...