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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005
Virus writers is the new soldier!
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Indeed. Most codes of this kind are written by Chinese today. The Chinese military is estimated to maintain cyberwarfare units with "combat troop strength" of at least 50.000, most estimation range beyond 150.000 though. The explicit target of theis weapon branch is the heavily depending US military, and the Chinese are running their cyber weapon program with a time advantage of around 15 years. The high computerisation and interconnectivity of forces is an advantage in conflicts against assumed weaker enemies, although the Taleban for example successfully have put this assumption at test. Against a similiarily high-.developed enemy, such high depüe3ndency on electronics and satellites and computers can easly turn into a critical vulnerability - even more so if training of combat forces wihtout using sophisticated communication and intel and sensor system and satellites has not been extensively trained anymore, or the wiunning cyber warrior defeats the cybersystem of the enemy without compromising his own high tech options, being able to make full use of them without them being opposed.
The Chinese inetion top deliberately tackle US high CCCI capacities has been turned into official miliztary policy of the Chinese very long time ago, and it has been pushed for since then with very big resources and great determination. If I were the US, this would worry me muc h more than the Chginese closing of the gab in combat capacity when just co7unting modern subs or aircrafts available in a combat zone close to the Chinese coast. That NATO just now has decided to make cyaberwarf a policy and pro9ject that from now on should be devleoped, tells me in what sorry state NATO really is. Even more so when realsiing that many NATO counties, amongst the mGermany, even actiovely (at least officially) deny the intention and need to develope cyber capacities of their own. The Bundeswehr has said at the summit that it does not plan to form cyberwar capacities. That leaves me just shaking my head. The Stux, which rates as the first major cyberwar strike in history, shows that there is urgent need to protect civil infrastructure in general.
Not evening mentioning the massive intelliegence war that is being waged all-against-all, and even amongst Western allies. The four biggest cyber-attackers against Germany, for the purpose of industrial and economic espionage, are China, Russia, the Unioted States and Israel.
Allied states? Friends...??
There is no friendship between states, and never was. The upcoming releases of new documents at Wikileaks probably will illustrate that, the US already are alarmed and have contacted other nations as a preemptive measure to prepare againstt he expected diplomatic fallout.
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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters." (Nietzsche)
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=175206
And a follow-up to the German FAZ essay that I posted in Septemeber. Both essays together give a very comprehensive descripotion of the Stuxnet attack, and background analysis on what it actually does:
http://www.faz.net/s/RubCEB3712D41B6...~Scontent.html