[Dailydave] Relativity in Cyber War

[sai]

Example of a company destroyed in this manner would be Nortel?

On 22 January 2016 at 00:48, Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:
> I read all the things people in Think Tanks say about cyber war, and all
> of them have a weird delusion about time. I think this may be one of the
> distinguishing characteristics of the cyber domain - time is split
> inside it the same way it is in a ship traveling at near the speed of
> light. Things happen either very very fast, or very very slow, and they
> connect at both ends in weird ways the way particle physics connects to
> black holes.
>
> For example, people think that to destroy a company you have to go all
> Saudi Aramco or Sony Pictures Entertainment on them. If you talk to
> Think Tank people or Academics they would say that only in tiny limited
> glimpses  - explosions that light up the night sky like supernovae - can
> you see True Cyber War. "What kinetic damage was caused?" they say,
> meaning "Who died from this crap, you stupid hacker geek?".
>
> But to destroy a company with cyber you don't make it bankrupt in a day.
> You just make it slightly and consistently unprofitable over a long
> enough time. This is a lot easier to do covertly with cyber than
> anything else. A hacker team conducting cyber war against you is
> Murphy's law writ large and angry against the night sky - until
> eventually where jobs and infrastructure was, is just darkness.
>
> -dave
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