Thursday, January 27, 2011

Welcome to the Age of Cyber War

Richard Falkenrath, New York Times
STUXNET, the computer worm that last year disrupted many of the gas centrifuges central to Iran’s nuclear program, is a powerful weapon in the new age of global information warfare. A sophisticated half-megabyte of computer code apparently accomplished what a half-decade of United Nations Security Council resolutions could not. This new form of warfare has several implications that are only now becoming apparent, and that will define the shape of what will likely become the next global arms race — albeit one measured in computer code rather than firepower. ...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/27/welcome_to_the_age_of_cyber_war_249495.html

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