[iwar] Re: Interests
From: Mohammad Ozair Rasheed
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:35:01 -0000
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Subject: [iwar] Re: Interests
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Fair answer and a fair question,
At present my interests ocillate between active participation in
researching on the subject and being a by stander to see the trends
being established in this subtle but very dangerous arena.
To answer your question specifically. I believe that the sporadic
incidents of virus attacks and web-page hacking are usually initiated
and carried out by those individual(s) who are want to test their
prowess as a programmer and mostly for personal fame and glory.
However, were these attacks sustained, coordinated and directed
towards a specific target (either commercial or governmental) they
would assume the proportions of a warfare.
Information warfare has perhaps not spread as yet to the electronic
frontier to a scale which can be matched with that of conventional
media at the governmental front but may be very real in the
commercial area, mostly due to many businesses switching over to the
Web for lucrative commercial prospects.
There are several means of information warfare namely, TV, magazines
(even as harmless as National Geographics), radio, books and the WEB.
But the "Web" is perhaps the medium with most far reaching and
damaging consequences due to the low cost associated with it's use
and that it spans political and geographical boundaries with ease.
Futhermore, as of today Internet serves merely a promotional/
distribution channel for most businesses, disruption of which, if is
a lifeline, can severly impact the profitability of any company. If
the companies were to evolve further and integrate "WEB" as part of
their organization processes then the impact of these events can
prove to be even more detrimental. This brings two important question
to mind. One. Are the businesses aware of the degree of impact while
considering integrating "WEB" in their processes and Two. What steps
can they take (or have taken) to keep their lifeline open at all
times.
In other cases where "Web" just serves as a promotional/advertising
tool the impact is minimal.
Looking at the events on the commercial frontier we see incidents
which range from hacking websites to cybersquatting to virus
deployment. I would like to know if there is any impact on the
Organizational processes, personnel, procedures and job descriptions
due to occurrence of these events. May be at some point in time these
sporadic events may become so frequent that organizations may have to
define new job descriptions for people who are specialists in
combating this menace.
There may be other forms of information warfare which can be termed
as nuiscance e.g. the ever going chain letter about microsoft
tracking the mail, a dying boy wanting his e-mail to travel to all
corners of the globe, ericsson giving a mobile phone to every
individal who forwards a mail to at least 10 people (with a copy to
someperson@ericsson.com), KFC using Genetically Bred Chickens instead
of real chickes in their food. Incidents like these pander to the
human sentiments and are a mere nuisance but incurr costs interms of
bandwidth and time and may become real.
Regards,
Ozair
To add a footnote.
I am not aware of the background and level of involvement of people
on this group and I assume that this is the case with many of the
members which leads to having no discussion on this topic, so it is
left to you (and some other active members) to generate discussion on
the topic.
>
> So tell me, what is your involvement in information warfare and
what are
> your interests? I would welcome more discussions of information
warfare
> issues. I try to present news that is relevant to the topic in the
> broad sense, but as a member of the forum, it is your job to
generate
> and participate in disucssions on the issues that most interest you.
> I can only do so much to make it happen.
>
> FC
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