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Relativity in Cyber War
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:48:18 -0500
I read all the things people in Think Tanks say about cyber war, and all of them have a weird delusion about time. I think this may be one of the distinguishing characteristics of the cyber domain - time is split inside it the same way it is in a ship traveling at near the speed of light. Things happen either very very fast, or very very slow, and they connect at both ends in weird ways the way particle physics connects to black holes. For example, people think that to destroy a company you have to go all Saudi Aramco or Sony Pictures Entertainment on them. If you talk to Think Tank people or Academics they would say that only in tiny limited glimpses - explosions that light up the night sky like supernovae - can you see True Cyber War. "What kinetic damage was caused?" they say, meaning "Who died from this crap, you stupid hacker geek?". But to destroy a company with cyber you don't make it bankrupt in a day. You just make it slightly and consistently unprofitable over a long enough time. This is a lot easier to do covertly with cyber than anything else. A hacker team conducting cyber war against you is Murphy's law writ large and angry against the night sky - until eventually where jobs and infrastructure was, is just darkness. -dave
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