Re: [iwar] what next? DDoS and then?
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:39:54 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [iwar] what next? DDoS and then?
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Per the message sent by MAGLAN 1:
...
> - Web and Mail Forgery
> - Virus and Vandals implant
> - Remote Sniffing
> - Intrusion to Internal Networks
> - Intrusion to organizational Internet Networks (DMZ hacking)
> - Extensive Infrastructures Scanning
> - Social Engineering
> - Denial of Service
Didn't you forget the attack that gleaned the details of US supporters
of Israel, stole their credit cards. sent them harrassing email, took
some of their funds, and was declared part of an economic war?
This represents something more than those listed above. In particular,
it is an attack on the international political and financial support of
a country.
Similarly, the defacements of PLO sites tended to be rather religiously
insulting in nature and were designed to insight, not merely to deface.
When you accuse the CIA of being the Central Stupidity Agency, that is
defacement. When you put up religiously offensive pictures on the site
of a religiously organized/oriented group, that is something quite
different.
This is, of course, not the same as trying to really degrade a military
operational capability, but then isn't that precisely what the PLO tried
to do when it used denial of service against IDF network sites? And
wasn't the targetting of PLO military leaders based on the locaitons of
their cell phones when in use also in the realm of a military act?
It seems to me that there are indeed information operations underway
here, but that the ones getting more publicity are only the public face
of the information conflict. Perception management is fundamental to
this and other similar conflicts. The goal of the PLO is not military
victory but rather political victory. Going toe to toe with Israel will
not get them what they want because they are outgunned. Rather, they
seek to engage other Arab nations in the conflict to leverage those
nations' militaries against Israel, the wish to degrade support for
Israel from abroad, and they seek to get international support for their
own statehood. This is the same plan followed by Israel at the end of
WWII.
I think that this could not be called anything other than an information
war, with the physical part of the war acting only as a weapon of the
information war.
I bet there will be other comments on this...
FC
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