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

[Charles Polisher <cpolish () surewest net>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:39:11AM -0600, delchi delchi wrote:
> [...] Where is the difference in
> pushing a button that launches a missile to exert kinetic destruction
> on an industrial pant and a button that unleashes a piece of software
> causing the machinery in the plant to malfunction & kinetically self
> destruct?

One difference is that the spacial location of the button
would be hard to pin down beyond "somewhere on or about the
planet". A missile pretty much reveals its point of origin
when you launch it. So, attribution is a difference.

Another difference is that missiles that are housed in silos
at fixed locations can be attacked pro-actively. But where is
the button? How will you attack the button?
-- 
Charles Polisher

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