Re: Quick Review: Cyberwar as a Confidence Game by Martin C. Libicki

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () coredump cx>]

> Those who can and do comment generally have no actual 1st hand
> experience with cyber-war, and so really don't know what they are
> talking about (more or less).

It's quite possible that there exists an area of expertise on which no
public knowledge is available, and therefore no meaningful opinion can
be formed.

That said, the topic of "cyber warfare" is discussed at length by
government officials, contractors, and other figures in the industry.
The above theory implies that they are essentially making things up -
be it for personal gain, or for other, less transparent reasons.

That's possible; but if so, what's the harm in discussing the
presented belief system, and evaluating the publicly available
information on its own merits? And what's the alternative?

[ That said, I genuinely do not understand about 3/4 of this thread so
far, and it's not for the lack of trying, so... ;-) ]

/mz
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