[lit-ideas] Re: Misunderstanding The information Age

Phil: So we are supposed to believe this braggadocio?

Eric: I assume you mean the Chinese braggadocio? I don't know, but China's capacity certainly cannot be pushed out of mind. The general prospects for cyberwar and netwar, however, seem increasingly likely...

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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/opinion/eo2005/eo20050522a1.htm
Yet, for the foreseeable future, China can do more damage to America through economic policies and through "cyber warfare" than it can militarily. North Korea is said to be training more than 600 technicians in the science of cyber war -- how many more is China training? I am sure the number runs into thousands. They could devastate the U.S. economy, and have a go at destroying a good part of U.S. military capability.

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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/china/1999/e-11-10-99-13.htm
Canberra, Nov. 10 (CNA) Mainland China is planning to spend billions of dollars on a high-tech upgrade of its People's Liberation Army (PLA) to prepare to fight a future war in cyberspace with Taiwan and the West. In a dispatch from Beijing, a correspondent from the Australian on Wednesday reported that China's new emphasis on cyberwar represents a policy U-turn, reversing decades of military planning because of its growing tensions with Taiwan and the West, particularly the United States.

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http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zPVm1Nfii1gJ:www.csis.org/tech/0211_lewis.pdf+Chinese+Cyber+war+capacity&hl=en

Assessing the Risks of Cyber Terrorism, Cyber War and Other Cyber Threats

For example, writers in some of China's military journals speculated that *cyber* attacks could disable American financial markets. The
dilemma for this kind of attack is that China is as dependent on the
same financial markets as the United States, and could suffer even more from disruption. With other critical infrastructures, the amount of damage that can be done is, from a strategic viewpoint, trivial, while the costs of discovery for a nation state could be very great. These constraints, however, do not apply to non-state actors like Al Qaeda. *Cyber* attacks could potentially be a useful tool (albeit not a fatal or determinative tool) for non-state actors who reject the global market economy.

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http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/battle/chp6.html

One reason is that the United States is an open society; it may be too vulnerable to engage in netwar with an adversary prepared to “fight back.” 17 The communications infrastructure, the “information highway,” is “wide open” in our society. American society may be terribly vulnerable to a strategic netwar attack; getting us to believe fictive claims appears to be what commercial and political advertising are all about, and they seem to be effective. Also we may find physical control and security to be impossible. The domestic computer, communication, and information networks essential for the daily functioning of American society are very vulnerable to penetration and manipulation—even destruction—by determined hackers.18 In the future, these may not be amateurs but well-paid “network ninjas” inserting the latest French, Iranian, or Chinese virus into Compuserve or other parts of the internet.19



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