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Cyberwarfare

Posted by Jesse Brown on October 22 at 03:36 PM

On the next Search Engine, we’ll talk about how the Internet is changing the nature of war. Some starting notes on the topic:

Last spring’s cyber-assault on Estonia

Germany accuses China of espionage-attacks

South African robot-cannon goes bezerk, kills nine

Annalee Newitz’s upcoming Technology in Wartime conference

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I read a compelling article on the state of the art of battlefield robots a while back. It was in the February, 2007 issue:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081385

You need to have a subscription, but I suspect the CBC has some magic access to such things.

Posted by: Darren Barefoot | October 22, 2007 05:21 PM

Cyberwarfare you say.

Although what happened in Estonia is interesting I think you might be able to get a little more information closer to home. Boingboing posted something about Storm Worm and is now down. Co-incidence? I think not!!

Posted by: Tony | October 24, 2007 11:41 PM

I found a fascinating Wired article on the Estonia cyber attack, and more specifically on the involvement of highly placed people in the word internet structure (the so-called Vetted) in the efforts to defend Estonia from this attack.

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia?currentPage=1

Posted by: Andre Lauzon | October 26, 2007 08:42 AM

Three contemporary things things I'd check out for starters are James DerDerian's book Virtuous War, the Joint Vision 2020 and http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/battlefield_pr.html

best
gw

Posted by: Geoffrey Whitehall | November 25, 2007 12:28 PM

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