| Title: | THE EVOLVING FACE OF CYBER-CONFLICT AND INFORMATION WARFARE |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812709233_0035 |
| Source: | INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON NUCLEAR WAR AND PLANETARY EMERGENCIES 36TH SESSION (pp 259-278)
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| Author(s): | WILLIAM A. BARLETTA
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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| Abstract: | This paper analyzes the potential for organized malicious behavior on the part of nation-states and non-governmental organizations and networks against the social, economic, political, or military assets and interests of local state and national governments involving computerized information technologies. The object of the analysis does not differentiate between cyber warfare and cyber terrorism as in both cases a principle measure of merit for the attacker is the deleterious effect on the objective of the attack rather than the proximate gain by the miscreant—a motivation that is the converse of the aim of the cyber-criminal who seeks his own gain or gratification regardless of the effects on the party attacked. Nonetheless, the technical considerations, instruments and methods are the same as those found in “peer-on-peer” criminal activity. The paper discusses some necessary aspects of an international social and legal framework and offers recommendations for the United Nations to follow-up the processes begun in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). |
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