Is Cyberwarfare Fiction? 205
An anonymous reader writes "In response to calls by Russia and the UN for a 'cyberwarfare arms limitation treaty,' this article explains that 'cyberwar' and 'cyberweapons' are fiction. The conflicts between nation states in cyberspace are nothing like warfare, and the tools hackers use are nothing like weapons. Putting 'cyber' in front of something is just a way for people to grasp technical concepts. The analogies quickly break down, and are useless when taken too far (such as a 'cyber disarmament treaty').'"
... or Trick? (Score:3, Funny)
In response to calls by Russia and the UN for a "cyberwarfare arms limitation treat"
And then we can all dress up as h4x0r3z, maybe call the event Geek-o-Ween.
Re:The only new thing is the UN (Score:5, Funny)
Nanotech weaponry. (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone who does not take cyberwarfare seriously is not envisioning a world where nanotechnology is everywhere in everything. Where the enemy can create a bomb that you shallow in a pill, or that is sprinkled on your food. Where the enemy can use nano bots too small to see to kill people, or hack into or reprogram, etc.
It's definitely not fiction, it's reality. The technology to do this already exists and for all we know governments could be launching their attacks as we speak. Whoever controls the nanotech weapons will control the future.
Re:Don't you mean Information Warfare? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Cyber warfare: FUD for vendors. (Score:3, Funny)
I was really hoping you were going to end that sentence with, "There's an app for that."
Re:Maybe not today but in the future. (Score:5, Funny)
Dick Cheney for one. The only real hearts he has are the ones hes eaten.
I am very offended by this remark. Dick Cheney has never eaten a human heart. He's cut them out, certainly, but the only hearts he's eaten are puppy hearts.
Please retract your statement.
Re:Cyber warfare: FUD for vendors. (Score:4, Funny)
But that was just possible because the Soviets were stupid enough to use something that was created in the western world. We'd never be so stupid to use electronics made in... oh... umm... well...
Next question?
don't forget.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The only new thing is the UN (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm... an incoherent, constantly squabbling group of people who spend more time fighting amongst themselves than getting their act together and working for the common goal, self absorbed and hardly in touch with reality, dreaming up pipe dreams of greatness while at the same time accomplishing nothing...
Call me a conspiration crackpot, but could it be that they're sitting in congress?
Re:The only new thing is the UN (Score:3, Funny)
Think of the children!
I really don't want a visit from a partyvan.
Keep the theme going . . . (Score:4, Funny)
No matter how ridiculous it sounds, we should do our best to keep up the whole "cyber-war", "cyber-weapons", "cyber-attack" theme.
That way, we can invoke the Second Amendment when the government tries to restrict strong encryption, copyright circumvention software or whatever other "cyber-weapons" they find threatening. Sorry Feds, you were the ones that started this whole theme about electronics and software being "weapons", and as such, you have no power to restrict the citizens from owning them.