Word: infowar
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...ETHICAL DILEMMA POSED BY REBOOTING a target country's banking system: If I had a choice between electronically wiping out a retiree's life savings through infowar and taking his grandchild's life on the battlefield, I would opt for the electronic Black Friday. GLENN A. TOLLE Fort Hood, Texas AOL: G Tolle...
HACKERS ARE THE KEY TO THE INFOWAR. If the government doesn't use them, they'll just intrude into sensitive areas even more. But if the government does take advantage of hackers' expertise, it will save on operating costs, training expenses and even computer budgets. The 21st century definitely will see the Rise of the Hackers. SHAHEEN GANDHI Bridgewater, New Jersey AOL: Sha5...
...just as easily develop the same weapons and use them against the U.S. "When people talk about the tremendous potential of this warfare, they need to take a bite out of the reality sandwich," says Colonel Richard Szafranski, an instructor at the Air Force's Air War College. An infowar arms race could be one the U.S. would lose because it is already so vulnerable to such attacks. Indeed, the cyber enhancements that the military is banking on for its conventional forces may be chinks in America's armor...
Senior Pentagon and intelligence officials have told TIME that senior White House aides have been considering a top-secret presidential directive spelling out what agencies of the government would defend against infowar or retaliate with a strategic attack by the U.S. (A Clinton adviser even fears an information-warfare strike before next year's presidential election; one of his jobs, he says half-jokingly, is to find a "Cabinet member to blame if something really bad happens.") Senior officers say that in the future, the President's black bag containing the instructions for launching a nuclear strike may also have...
Indeed, in some respects, infowar may only refine the way modern warfare has shifted toward civilian targets, from the firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo during World War II to the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. Taking down a country's air-traffic control or phone systems might be done cleanly with computers-but it still represents an attack on civilians. Economic warfare can be as dire as other forms of war, as embargoes have shown. With its fancy technology, infowar may be able to avoid some of the battlefield's lethal, bloody and dirty traditions. But the words of William Tecumseh...