What Would The First Cyber War Be Like?

Waiting For Cybergeddon -- Strategy Page

In the United States, the FBI (which is responsible for detecting and investigating Internet based crime) is warning that America is becoming ever more vulnerable to "cybergeddon" (a massive attack via the Internet that would cripple the economy, government and military.) The FBI admits that it has a hard time getting more money for their Internet security efforts. And reason is because the threat is largely invisible. A picture of a nuclear bomb going off, or of enemy tanks and warships ready to attack, makes a much more effective impression on the politicians who dole out the money.

The FBI also wants to get the Department of Defense Internet defense operations more involved in national level defense against network based attacks. But the four services have a hard time agreeing to coordinate their efforts to defend military use of the Internet when under massive hacker attack. Thus the FBI plea for help sort of falls on distracted ears.

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My Comment: It will only take one successful and crippling attack on the web to have the political establishment divert the necessary resources to prevent such an outcome.

Like 9/11, a Web Pearl Harbor is the only way to focus everyone's attention to the web's vulnerability.