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Mohammad Bin Rashid, Nathan Smith, Josiah Swanson

Cyberwar: Reality or Myth?

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What is Cyber War?

An attack that originates in cyber space but causes real world harm.

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Is Cyber Warfare Important?

Deputy

of defense secretary William J. Lynn III states cyber war is Just as critical to military operations as land, sea, air and space.

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Is Cyber War Really Here?

Cyber

War does not meet the definition of war, which state:

War has to be potentially violent,

purposeful and political. had minimum results

Some of the most famous cyber attacks

Attack on Estonia which attacked 85,000 computers only shut down websites for 2 hours a day at its peak.

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Is There Reason to Worry ?

US

defense secretary Leon Panetta said We could face a cyber attack that would be the digital equivalent to Pearl Harbor.

official, Richard Clarke also noted nation wide power blackouts, planes falling out of the sky, trains derailing, refineries burning, pipelines exploding, poisonous gas cloud wafting and 3/26/12

Counterterrorism

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Examples of the Dangers

Russia's Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant

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Aug. 17, 2009, a 900-ton turbine was ripped out of its seat,. The turbine's unusually high vibrations had worn down the bolts that kept its cover in place, and an offline sensor failed to detect the malfunction. Seventyfive people died in the accident,

However,

General Keith Alexander, head of U.S. cyber command failed to mention that the plant lacked regular maintenance and the chain of events that led up to the disaster would be hard to replicate from cyberspace.

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Claim: Cyber Weapons Can Create Massive Collateral Damage

This

was stated after Irans nuclear program was sabotaged in 2010 by the worm known as Stuxnet 2010. The worm did indeed spread over 100,000 computers worldwide, however it was only designed to affect the networks in the Iranian company. So the damage is specifically limited to the target.

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Claim: Cyber-offense Enjoys an Advantage Over Defense

This

is a view very strongly held my many cyberspace experts within the Pentagon, when in fact the cost and the shorter lifespan of a cyber weapon are insufficient to the defensive measure put into place against it.

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Cyber Arms Nonproliferation Agreement?

The

British government convened a meeting of the UN General Assembly in order to establish an international code on information security. dispute arises when differentiating between cyber crime and political activity in the cyber sphere.

However

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United States Imminent Demise

In

2007 and 2008, Russia was able to cripple the Georgian economy through the use of cyber weapons. types of malicious codes are primarily used to hindered the financial sector of a national economy

These

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Although

many skeptics believe that Russian and Chinese cyber weapon technology are becoming more of a threat to the U.S. The truth is that the U.S. and Israel are still far superior in cyber technology.
Stuxnet still remains the most

sophisticated cyber attack on record.

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Cyber Warfare is Already Here

The

U.S. military is very susceptible to the threat of cyber warfare.

This is proven through the unknown

classified information from the 1997 eligible receiver exercise

Cyber

warfare is thought to become more destructive.

A scaled up version of the attacks on

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Questions
Should Do

cyber warfare be used to start a conventional war? you believe that China poses a significant cyber threat to the U.S. military? cyber warfare one day eliminate the need for conventional warfare? would be the Day after

Could

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What

Final Question
In

an age of cyber terrorism, do our adolescent hackers become our heroes on the frontlines?

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