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Originally Posted by Skybird
The future is cyber warfare. Target the powergrid of the target nation with virusses and malware like that. Hospitals. Traffic control system, air traffic. Hoover dam control centre. Nuclear powerplants.
Stuxnet, anyone? It was the first war strike of the new era.
I hate to say that Russia, China and especially India have very good programmers.
Next will be biological agents that can do ethnicity-depending target selection. Virusses that go after people with a certain mark or combination in their genes.
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If it is run with Windows it is sure to fail without or without the help of malware. This includes the drones. But you are correct in the sense that the dependency on computers that require electricity and cable/satellites to function do leave a open wound. Once salt is poured in that wound everything grinds to a halt. I'm willing to bet most here who utilize a computer at work will tell you that business stops when any one of the components that make up the system quits.
I do believe biological is more of a concern than electronic warfare.