Re: [iwar] * JAPAN is preparing to use electronic weapons to destroy (fwd)


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Subject: Re: [iwar] * JAPAN is preparing to use electronic weapons to destroy (fwd)
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At 06:59 AM 10/27/00 -0700, you wrote:
>By Juliet Hindell in Tokyo
>Tuesday 24 October 2000
>
>JAPAN is preparing to use electronic weapons to destroy the computers
>of hackers trying to infiltrate the country's defence systems. The
>move follows raids on government computer systems.
>
>The Japan Defence Agency is expected to deploy the "cyber squad".
>Leading computer experts will design software which will be capable of
>launching anti-hacking and anti-virus attacks.


This "ability" sounds threatening, but must surely be so tightly proscribed
as to be almost insignificant.  If dedicated hackers were to jump though
several compromised machines in various countries, place "time bombs" in
(say) a set of NASA computers, do a reasonable job of wiping their trail,
and several weeks later these "bombs" launch an attack on Japan's defense
systems, I seriously doubt that a JDA "cyber squad" will respond by
destroying the offending NASA computers.

The need to verify that the offending systems are not themselves victims
of the originating crime will (I assume) act to curtail most of these
envisioned "rapid response" activities.

Otherwise, we create a huge electronic tinderbox, each "rapid response"
misperceived to be a malicious attack inviting further rapid response.

Thoughts?

___tony___


Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900


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