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


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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:53:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [iwar] * JAPAN is preparing to use electronic weapons to destroy (fwd)
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Tony, what are we going to do with you?  Aren't you a realist?

In the world of political operations, it's not about hitting the right target,
it's about the amount of noise you make.

In the world of field operators, we spend a lot of time to make certain we've
got the right target, but that's not a popular approach.

The JDA comments sound like much smoke and little fire.  This is what happens
when Those In Charge have no idea about what to really do--they opt for
reprisal.  Which morphs into escalation.

MW

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Tony Bartoletti wrote:

> 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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