Cyberwar games at West Point with Lt. Col. Robert Fanelli, left, Cadets Nathan Larsen, Mark Evinger, seated, and Marc Abbott. Michael Falco for The New York TimesUN Telecom Chief Warns Of Cyberspace Wars -- Red Orbit
The world’s next war could occur in cyberspace and could be catastrophic, warned the United Nations’ secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on Tuesday during the ITU’s Telecom World 2009 fair in Geneva.
"The next world war could happen in cyberspace and that would be a catastrophe. We have to make sure that all countries understand that in that war, there is no such thing as a superpower," the AFP news agency quoted Hamadoun Toure as saying.
The telecom agency chief’s remarks came as experts at the conference made a call for action to put an end to cyber attacks.
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My Comment: I am not persuaded. These concerns are the same concerns that I heard when New Years 2000 occurred. I heard the same worries, and after spending billions of dollars to prepare for the worse ..... nothing happened.
Until someone can do a comprehensive study that will map out exactly what a cyberwar will entail .... all talk of a World War in cyberspace will just be that .... all talk.
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Regarding the Y2K issue, back in 1998 and 1999 I was contracted out to quite a few government agencies to check to see if their computers would pass the Y2K bug, and if not, correct the issue.
Let me put it to you this way, if that would not have been done, then those worries would have come true in many industries.
There is a real threat however, I do not believe that 1,000 "cyber agents" will fix the problem of possible war or terror via the Internet.
It comes down to the hardware and the software used.
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