Cyberwar
The New York Times has an excellent, comprehensive series on cyberwar.
By JOHN MARKOFF, DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
New York Times, 2010-01-26
By David Ignatius
Washington Post Op-Ed, 2010-08-26
An intriguing aspect of cyberstrategy is that
it turns “globalization” inside out.
A U.S. laptop maker that once would have boasted that
its components were assembled in 50 countries
must now worry about
50 points where an intruder could plant malicious code.
The Defense Department calls this problem “supply chain vulnerability.”
Lynn said he hopes companies will monitor their plants and suppliers
to reduce the risk that products sent to the United States are contaminated,
but he conceded that “you can’t build everything inside a fence.”
[Hey, there’s not only physical security to worry about,
but also personnel security!
Who knows where
the loyalties of the employees manufacturing
all those U.S.-security-critical components
lie?]
In the debate about cyberstrategy,
I hope officials will recognize the dangers of militarizing
the global highway for commerce and communication.
Of course we want to protect ourselves against threats.
But as with human viruses, hostile computer bugs will
evade our best efforts at quarantine.
A new (and expensive) obsession with cybersecurity
is not what this traumatized country needs.
[This is no time to be penny wise and pound foolish.
The costs of a successful cyber-attack
on our heavily automated national infrastructure
could be very, very high, in both dollars and casualties.
Far better to spend a few billion dollars a year to ward off such a possibility
than to shut the barn door after the horse was stolen
(how’s that for a metaphor? :-).
And if you want something to cut, what really needs cutting
is our spending, federal and private, on healthcare.]
as part of cyber-defense strategy
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post, 2010-08-28
(This appeared in the print Sunday, 2010-08-29 edition.)
by Philip Giraldi
Antiwar.com, 2012-06-07
2010
2010-01-26-NYT
In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy DeterrentBy JOHN MARKOFF, DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
New York Times, 2010-01-26
2010-08-26-Ignatius
Pentagon's cybersecurity plans have a Cold War chillBy David Ignatius
Washington Post Op-Ed, 2010-08-26
An intriguing aspect of cyberstrategy is that
it turns “globalization” inside out.
A U.S. laptop maker that once would have boasted that
its components were assembled in 50 countries
must now worry about
50 points where an intruder could plant malicious code.
The Defense Department calls this problem “supply chain vulnerability.”
Lynn said he hopes companies will monitor their plants and suppliers
to reduce the risk that products sent to the United States are contaminated,
but he conceded that “you can’t build everything inside a fence.”
[Hey, there’s not only physical security to worry about,
but also personnel security!
Who knows where
the loyalties of the employees manufacturing
all those U.S.-security-critical components
lie?]
In the debate about cyberstrategy,
I hope officials will recognize the dangers of militarizing
the global highway for commerce and communication.
Of course we want to protect ourselves against threats.
But as with human viruses, hostile computer bugs will
evade our best efforts at quarantine.
A new (and expensive) obsession with cybersecurity
is not what this traumatized country needs.
[This is no time to be penny wise and pound foolish.
The costs of a successful cyber-attack
on our heavily automated national infrastructure
could be very, very high, in both dollars and casualties.
Far better to spend a few billion dollars a year to ward off such a possibility
than to shut the barn door after the horse was stolen
(how’s that for a metaphor? :-).
And if you want something to cut, what really needs cutting
is our spending, federal and private, on healthcare.]
2010-08-28-WP-preemptive-possibility
Pentagon considers preemptive strikesas part of cyber-defense strategy
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post, 2010-08-28
(This appeared in the print Sunday, 2010-08-29 edition.)
2012
2012-06-07-Giraldi-in-the-land-of-the-blind
In the Land of the Blindby Philip Giraldi
Antiwar.com, 2012-06-07
posted by KHarbaugh at 03:20
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