Re: The underlying structure is foamy

[Thomas Lim <thomas () coseinc com>]

Dave

Ben, like you and Halvar, are all iconoclasts. It's impossible to find
anyone else in this Universe that will come close to looking like the 3
of you and/or have the kind of cognitive "computing power" that you 3
possess. Unlike me who is a Chinese, common, prevalent (you cannot get
rid of us, can't you?) and who cannot read, write and pronounce properly
the lingua franca of planet Earth.

Ben is really a mystique. His train of thoughts is out of this world.
Which is why no one can explain why he, a brilliant mind, continues to
work in a tiny weeny company run by someone whose brainpower is
equivalent to a rubber duckie.

I believe yo are spot on when you said that moving of bits does not
affect his live. The Internet, no matter how powerful and pervasive,
will have great difficulty affecting someone's life when that someone
carries a phones that does not work when he leaves the mountain, when
electricity is a luxury and does not have a Facebook account. i mean
which earthlings do not have a Facebook account?

i kind of agree and disagree with you. i think the Internet will be the
new Navy. Its not quite there yet but its definitely moving in that
direction. Even when the Internet becomes the new Navy, it still will
not replace the Ocean as the main medium of commerce. Unless "beam me up
Scottie" becomes a reality. From what little i know of Physics and
Biology (yes coming from the guy who believes that it will not rain on a
full moon), that is not going to happen.

Nation-states are concerned about the effect of the Internet, especially
so with draconian regimes. It's (the Internet) catalytic effect on
change on almost all matters of our life is amazing or frightening,
depending on how you see it or accepting and leveraging it.

i, on the other hand, am not concern only about nation-states and the
Internet. i am also very concern about how enterprises/big corporations
are using the Internet to affect our life in ways that we never intend to.

i agree completely with you that Cyber will replace nuclear. What makes
it really scary is that nation-states postulates with nuclear but will
launch "cyber attack".



Thank you
Thomas Lim

On 24/5/2013 4:49 AM, Dave Aitel wrote:
> So Ben Nagy, who is nothing if not an iconoclast, disagrees with my and
> Halvar's general tenets that the easiest analogy to what is happening in
> the cyber space is the creation of a new Navy (or set of Navy's). But he
> refuses to argue with it when it's not words on paper. So I figured I'd
> put down some words on paper.
>
> The first and most basic premise is that the Internet has replaced the
> oceans as the global Commons. While it's true if you're moving mercury
> or steel or plastic rubber duckies from China to somewhere not-China,
> and while it's also true that the very wires that are the Internet are
> sitting across Ocean floors, deep down Commerce now largely moves over
> the Internet.
>
> I don't know if that's the part Ben disagrees with. I think the part he
> disagrees with is that by moving bits around, you can effect him in Real
> Life. Which brings us to the second part:
>
> I believe that you can cause dramatic nation-state effecting things over
> the Internet. I also believe you can do small things if you want. There
> are graduated Booms available if you have true information dominance.
> Ben lives in a house that has power only a minority of the hours of the
> day, so it's hard sometimes to imagine how you would effect him
> personally. But he also flies around in metal tubes running
> lowest-bidder real time operating systems hooked up to the network
> (occasionally, at least). Modern planes can only fly if a quorum if the
> cyber attackers on their systems vote to let them fly.
>
> I look at these physical<-->cyber connections as simple gateways, but I
> find that if you go around postulating more ways to do this stuff in
> public, people consider you a huge douchebag.
>
> Basically Dvorak and Ben are "not scared". Which is fine. But the people
> who really make these decisions in most nation-states ARE scared. And on
> one end, that's all that you need for working Deterrence, which is the
> next argument.
>
> In other words - I believe that cyber can replace nuclear (and has, to
> some extent already) as a military deterrent. If Iran turned around
> tomorrow and said "Stop the financial blockade or every wall street firm
> goes away forever" then what's the US response? I hope we know, because
> that very well is the next step. "We don't believe you" is not the
> probable reaction, I'm guessing.
>
> How about this one? "We're going to take a random ship and fill its
> ballast tanks completely with water in the next storm". How's that Navy
> looking now? At a lot of code assessments and not a lot of sailing
> around the world enforcing trade embargoes, I'm afraid.
>
> And if you can replace ANYTHING as a deterrent, then you might as well
> replace our aging, expensive, and dangerous fleet of ballistic
> submarines. Each of which is TWO BILLION DOLLARS. That's almost real money.
>
> So that's the basic setup for the thesis, all of which annoys @RantyBen
> AS PROMISED.
>
> In case you're curious where all this comes from (other than phone calls
> with Halvar), I've been working in my copious spare time on a Doctrine
> for Cyberwar, which is essentially just game theory as applied to the
> realities of what we do as hackers. This results in the three talks I've
> given over the past year:
>
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-security-11/three-cyber-war-fallacies
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQET68HHSg (Amateur hour on the Internet
> aka what is and what is not a cyberweapon)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2M9nmqP6n0 (Everything Buffy the Vampire
> Slayer Taught me about Cyberwar)
>
> -dave
> (Ben, you're up.)
> (Also, for those of you who haven't noticed yet, there's a special ad in
> Immunity Debugger right now that links you to a special video. :>)
>
>
>
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