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Re: Cyber War or just Cyber Protest?
From: M.B.Jr. <marcio.barbado () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:57:19 -0200
Dear "you-know-who", On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:14 PM, andrew. wallace <andrew.wallace () rocketmail com> wrote:
If "cyber war" is just web site defacement then I don't think we ever need to take "cyber war" too seriously.
Starting -- all of a sudden, with wrong and fallacious premises cannot obviously lead to solid conclusions. Defacements constitute compromised information integrity, and that is serious.
It seems to me that "cyber war" just means protesters protesting and no actual cyber war is there, as a cyber war would mean two sides fighting, although two sides aren't fighting in "cyber" its all one-way script kid web defacement, not real war in any sense. Two sides fighting, a government and some other entity and the internet stuck in the middle, now that would mean "cyber war", there has been no cyber war and is unlikely to be one. If people are marching in London today in the streets against the Israel-Gaza conflict is that called "war"? Of course not, so why are the media so quick to call protesting on-line, a war? [1] What it really is, is folks protesting... a cyber protest, not a war. Why are we using the wrong words to describe stuff? It's not even the media, it was Gary Warner on a web log. [2] [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7809656.stm [2] http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2008/12/muslim-hackers-declare-cyberwar-on.html We as a community should be cautious about using the wrong words to describe stuff, because the media take influence from us guys on mailing lists and blogs and at security conferences, so its important we use "cyber protest" when script kids deface some web sites. To put the right angle on this, it's unlikely to be new people doing the defacements, its likely to be script kids who were defacers anyway, and just change their political message to go with *whatever the current climate is*. Tomorrow the same folks will be defacing with a new message, they don't care *really* about the message, defacers will find any reason to deface. It's unlikely the Israel-Gaza conflict defacers were only sprung into action because of what is going on in the world, they would be defacing anyway and looking for any excuse to do so. Let's be careful from now on I don't like to see the wrong buzzwords used and i'm sure Gadi doesn't either. If Hamas cyber attacked Israel and Israel had a cyber response, then that would be cyber war. This is not cyber war folks, this is a cyber protest those kids are doing, they are unlikely to be connected with anything thats going on and were web defacers anyway with a different defacement message the day before. Please I hope we as security experts know the difference. I wrote this Email just incase because i'm sick of certain buzzwords like cyber war when there isn't a cyber war. When the day comes that a government and another entity is two-way cyber fighting and say for instance critical national infrastructure is affected then you can talk about cyber war, until then please describe web site defacers as "cyber protest". A cyber war is two-way fighting, one-way fighting is not a war! And to clarify, a bunch of kids defacing a web site and you applying a patch afterwards is not classed as two-way fighting and cannot be considered "cyber war" either. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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