I don't know the current US IW policy towards China but here is China's view on IW provided by Major General Wang Pufeng in his paper THE CHALLENGE OF INFORMATION WARFARE excerpted from China Military Science (Spring 1995).
"In wars of the future, China will face the enemy's more complete information technology with incomplete information technology. Because sometimes superior tactics can make up for inferior technology, China will still carry out its traditional warfare method of "you fight your way, I'll fight my way," and use its strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses and adhere to an active role in warfare. To do this, it appears that we must pay even more attention to:
Fully utilizing the advantages of national territory and front information facilities to carry out reconnaissance on the enemy's situation and protect ourselves and attack the enemy
Developing, improving, and utilizing China's information weapons in a concentrated way to carry out raids on enemy operation platforms and bases and damage and foil the enemy's offensive
Emphasizing mobile war in the context of information warfare
Conscientiously organizing sabotage operations by the Army, Navy, and Air Force, grasp exploitable opportunities, and make continuous raids to exhaust and wear down the enemy
Organizing specialized combined special warfare troops and equip these with information technology weapons to carry out powerful special warfare.
In summary, our warfare methods must adapt to the needs of information warfare. We must use all types, forms, and methods of force, and especially make more use of nonlinear warfare and many types of information warfare methods which combine native and Western elements to use our strengths in order to attack the enemy's weaknesses, avoid being reactive, and strive for being active. In this way, it will be entirely possible for China to achieve comprehensive victory over the enemy even under the conditions of inferiority in information technology."
Nope, the US Space Command has a variety of duties one of the most interesting is to track all the junk orbiting the planet left over from previous space missions.
While I agree with you that people seem to have this need to relate everything to the Internet in some way but, in reading the article about the use of information warfare tactics in Yugoslavia the Internet was never mentioned.
When reading this type of article most of us picture top secret NSA types sitting in front of their monitors and cracking systems. This assumption is incorrect in that it provides unreliable results especially considering during the bombing campaign the the cities where blacked out and there is a good chance that F16 or other aircraft are bombing communication centers (you can't crack a site if you can't connect to it).
It is more likely and i've heard rumors about this from several military contacts that conventional electromagnetic pulse bombs where used. These weopons are generally based on the Northrop GAM Mk.84 bomb kits and can be fitted to a wide variety of aircraft. The use of such a weapon reduces the cost in human lives because it is specificly designed to fry electronic equipment.
Just because it's information warfare doesn't mean the Internet is involved.
Domain Bank these guy I knew awhile back. They started their first business (an ISP) back in 1994 after dropping out of college. They ran the whole show on Linux and apache. It was one of the best local ISPs with excellent customer support. In late 95 they merged with a local long distance reseller...to make the story short the relationship didn't work out and in my opinion they got screwed. Around this time they started working with a local rich dude (real estate and alarm systems)on several projects. A few months later they formed a partnership and started Domain Bank.
I stopped working with these guys in 95 but from what I understand Domain Bank has always taken an active role in the future of alternative registrars by founding the Internet Council of Registrars (CORE).
While I haven't dealt with this company on a professional basis from everything I know about the people involved I am sure they run a professional organization with excellent customer service and a long term view of the Internet that would fit in line with most/. community.
This is just what I know about Domain Bank and some of the details regarding their formation may be incorrect but I can say they are good people.
I was at BestBuy looking for RedHat6 and Mandrake was $29.95 while RedHat was $79.95 since they both said they where RedHat 6.0 I bought the cheaper one....I will never make that mistake again.
While I think the article is pretty much on point in relation to CBRN and other weapons of mass destruction I do think the author ascribed the requirements in infrastructure and funding of CBRN projects to cyber warfare...this I think is totally inaccurate. In my opinion the most advanced cyber-weapon is an Electromagnetic Pulse bomb which that be constructed by anyone with a 1940's level of engineering skills and less than $10,000 in the bank. Such a weapon even crudely constructed could have an effective radius between 200 and 400 meters. Granted since most high tech military installations are shielded against such attacks their use is limited. But the use of such a weapon against satellite uplinks and remote listening posts is definately an option because by nature such systems need remain unshielded. Using such an attack in support of other terrorist activities could be devastating. Think of French partisans in WWII operating behind enemy lines to disrupt command and control activities during D-Day. Anyone could drive a truck bomb up to FIX(Federal Information eXchange) east or FIX west but what does that get you long term unless it's in support of larger operations. Even if we were speaking about the most basic use of cyber warfare such as hacking into systems, defacing websites,... they would almost always be used in support of larger operations. Think intelligence gathering and propaganda. The cost of such activities is minimal because most information regarding system vulnerabilities is open source and available to all. As with the current revelation by the FBI the companies that have outsourced Y2K fixes to other countries found malicious code and backdoors inserted in their fixes. An evaluation of the limited information available on this attack shows it to be elegant and very cost effective after all the companies themselves paid for their systems to be attacked and the attackers can explain it as just another disgruntled employee. Another aspect of this attack shows countries that most Americans would consider friendly (Israel, Ireland, India) have their own long term "goals". What it comes down to is NEVER trust a third party to handle your security because third parties have their own goals and objectives that are almost never the same as yours. It's not in a commercial software's best interest to reveal that their new OS or application is riddled with bugs and vulnerabilities, or that the latest router has buffer overflow "issues" in it's management system. Guess what, its definately going to get worse. Nevermind the advances in information technology that is being touted as the "next best thing to change your life". When it comes down to it we are still in the industrial age...90% of IT is still used to support the industrial manufacturing process and its related supply chain. There are no robot butlers, no flying cars, and no artifical "brains" thinking for us. Security is your responsibility not theirs....no matter what ZDnet thinks (inside joke). mailto://mystik@ix.netcom.com
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2. Remember Microsoft was started by some bright eyed college students in their dorn room.
3. If we are too busy competeing with ourselves how can we compete with other OS's?
4. It used to be the enemy of my enemy is my friend....I wonder who our friends will be 6 months from now...
8 Hackers,Desert Island,1 Can of Mountain Dew...you do the math
The question is not really if the net should be policed but rather who should do the policing.
Anytime the government is involved it requires extensive funding.
"In wars of the future, China will face the enemy's more complete information technology with incomplete information technology. Because sometimes superior tactics can make up for inferior technology, China will still carry out its traditional warfare method of "you fight your way, I'll fight my way," and use its strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses and adhere to an active role in warfare. To do this, it appears that we must pay even more attention to:
- Fully utilizing the advantages of national territory and front information facilities to carry out reconnaissance on the enemy's situation and protect ourselves and attack the enemy
- Developing, improving, and utilizing China's information weapons in a concentrated way to carry out raids on enemy operation platforms and bases and damage and foil the enemy's offensive
- Emphasizing mobile war in the context of information warfare
- Conscientiously organizing sabotage operations by the Army, Navy, and Air Force, grasp exploitable opportunities, and make continuous raids to exhaust and wear down the enemy
- Organizing specialized combined special warfare troops and equip these with information technology weapons to carry out powerful special warfare.
In summary, our warfare methods must adapt to the needs of information warfare. We must use all types, forms, and methods of force, and especially make more use of nonlinear warfare and many types of information warfare methods which combine native and Western elements to use our strengths in order to attack the enemy's weaknesses, avoid being reactive, and strive for being active. In this way, it will be entirely possible for China to achieve comprehensive victory over the enemy even under the conditions of inferiority in information technology."All located in the friendly town of Tysons Corner, VA
Thats exactly how it works....the NSA sponsers scolarships and intern programs for high school students in math and science.
When reading this type of article most of us picture top secret NSA types sitting in front of their monitors and cracking systems. This assumption is incorrect in that it provides unreliable results especially considering during the bombing campaign the the cities where blacked out and there is a good chance that F16 or other aircraft are bombing communication centers (you can't crack a site if you can't connect to it).
It is more likely and i've heard rumors about this from several military contacts that conventional electromagnetic pulse bombs where used. These weopons are generally based on the Northrop GAM Mk.84 bomb kits and can be fitted to a wide variety of aircraft. The use of such a weapon reduces the cost in human lives because it is specificly designed to fry electronic equipment.
Just because it's information warfare doesn't mean the Internet is involved.
FooGoo
Either way glad the story made it.
I love my Gerber Applegate but I nice lil' pocket knife with a set of torx drivers would definately come in handy...
Yeah, every stealth fighter comes with a slide rule for conversion.
Lets just bring it here...
I stopped working with these guys in 95 but from what I understand Domain Bank has always taken an active role in the future of alternative registrars by founding the Internet Council of Registrars (CORE).
While I haven't dealt with this company on a professional basis from everything I know about the people involved I am sure they run a professional organization with excellent customer service and a long term view of the Internet that would fit in line with most /. community.
This is just what I know about Domain Bank and some of the details regarding their formation may be incorrect but I can say they are good people.
I would think that this type of lawsuit would be better covered under deceptive advertising statutes and not trademarks. PEZ
60% of the earths population is dead...don't say I didn't warn you.
Somebody up this dudes score.
I never thought i'd see the words Microsoft and optimized in the same sentence.
I was at BestBuy looking for RedHat6 and Mandrake was $29.95 while RedHat was $79.95 since they both said they where RedHat 6.0 I bought the cheaper one....I will never make that mistake again.
While I think the article is pretty much on point in relation to CBRN and other weapons of mass destruction I do think the author ascribed the requirements in infrastructure and funding of CBRN projects to cyber warfare...this I think is totally inaccurate. In my opinion the most advanced cyber-weapon is an Electromagnetic Pulse bomb which that be constructed by anyone with a 1940's level of engineering skills and less than $10,000 in the bank. Such a weapon even crudely constructed could have an effective radius between 200 and 400 meters. Granted since most high tech military installations are shielded against such attacks their use is limited. But the use of such a weapon against satellite uplinks and remote listening posts is definately an option because by nature such systems need remain unshielded. Using such an attack in support of other terrorist activities could be devastating. Think of French partisans in WWII operating behind enemy lines to disrupt command and control activities during D-Day. Anyone could drive a truck bomb up to FIX(Federal Information eXchange) east or FIX west but what does that get you long term unless it's in support of larger operations. Even if we were speaking about the most basic use of cyber warfare such as hacking into systems, defacing websites, ... they would almost always be used in support of larger operations. Think intelligence gathering and propaganda. The cost of such activities is minimal because most information regarding system vulnerabilities is open source and available to all. As with the current revelation by the FBI the companies that have outsourced Y2K fixes to other countries found malicious code and backdoors inserted in their fixes. An evaluation of the limited information available on this attack shows it to be elegant and very cost effective after all the companies themselves paid for their systems to be attacked and the attackers can explain it as just another disgruntled employee. Another aspect of this attack shows countries that most Americans would consider friendly (Israel, Ireland, India) have their own long term "goals". What it comes down to is NEVER trust a third party to handle your security because third parties have their own goals and objectives that are almost never the same as yours. It's not in a commercial software's best interest to reveal that their new OS or application is riddled with bugs and vulnerabilities, or that the latest router has buffer overflow "issues" in it's management system. Guess what, its definately going to get worse. Nevermind the advances in information technology that is being touted as the "next best thing to change your life". When it comes down to it we are still in the industrial age...90% of IT is still used to support the industrial manufacturing process and its related supply chain. There are no robot butlers, no flying cars, and no artifical "brains" thinking for us. Security is your responsibility not theirs....no matter what ZDnet thinks (inside joke). mailto://mystik@ix.netcom.com