[Dailydave] Mojo

Dave Dittrich dave.dittrich at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 13:16:19 EST 2013


Dave,

With all due respect, I think the "cyberweapon" and "cyberwar" language
needs to stop. I urge you to not promote it.

This kind of sloppy rhetoric conflates war (which has clear definitions
under international law) with espionage (or network exploitation) and
worse, with crime. Stealing things is NOT war. Breaking into computers is
NOT war. These are NOT weapons, unless they can clearly be shown to have
similar effects to actual weapons.

Calling DNA a "cyberweapon," as happened in a previous post, conflates
information about biology with computer programs (is it not one) and use of
that information with an act of war (it is NOT war.)

Seriously, this is really hurting our cause by degrading a serious topic
into unscientific, emotional, and in may cases entirely self-serving
rhetoric, rather than a serious discussion of serious issues.

Dave (D.)


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:

>  So what defines a Cyber Weapon is in some part of my mind, a certain
> Mojo. It's like the difference between a speech, and rhetoric. With the
> right rhetoric you can lift whole houses right off the ground. And the
> right cyber weapon can change the world.
>
> To put it into context is Robert Graham:
> http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/10/the-fifth-estate-consensual.html<http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/10/the-fifth-estate-consensual.html#.UmmFBPnkvz4>
>
> "
> But once he got the ball rolling, it started to take on a life of its own.
> That happens a lot on the Internet.
> "
>
> His claim (which is probably right) is that WikiLeaks is there to provide
> cover for Wikileaks-related hackers (aka, Assange himself) who had data
> they wanted to get out. But so what? It's genius and everyone else is
> probably wishing they'd thought of it first, but nobody at the time
> realized how powerful just dumping semi-organized data on the world in a
> way that could not be shut up could be. It's like we had Voice of America,
> but failed to translate that into the Internet world before some random
> Australian, and now we're all jealous and blindsided.
>
> A good cyberweapon has Mojo. It has a life of it's own. That's what makes
> them so unstoppable.
>
> -dave
>
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