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Re: Quick Review: Cyberwar as a Confidence Game by Martin C. Libicki
From: Chris Eagle <cse.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:28:54 -0700
On 3/21/2011 10:48 AM, Ron Gula wrote:
I'm not sure I agree. Technically, sure, you can hack into things and take them out. However, comparing hacking to a cruise missile is a stretch. I can patch my systems today and your cyber-attack tomorrow is foiled. Or maybe I switch from Mac to Windows. A Tomahawk cruise missile is just as effective against a Russian radar system or a French one.
I think this confuses a lot of issues. You generally can only patch against my attack if you know something of my attack which I am not likely to share before I use the attack. Even if you do patch, it doesn't render my attack obsolete across the entire domain. If my attack fails, I try a new attack. Your patch or your alternate platform are just defenses I need to circumvent with careful mission planning. And a Tomahawk may not be as effective against a Russian radar system if they have a defense against Tomahawks, while the Tomahawk may be very effective against the French if they have no defense. The issues you point out are more closely related to time scale in the cyber domain. It's likely that a defense against a cyber attack can be developed and deployed much faster than a defense against a more conventional threat. In this regard, the decision to burn an 0day to achieve an effect may be much harder to make than the decision to use a tomahawk which have been in use for decades and still remain effective. As a result, "cyber" weapons are likely to have a much shorter shelf life than conventional/nuclear weapons because of the problems you cite. That makes them no less useful while they remain fresh. _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunityinc com https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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