Re: CyberWar as Declaration of War

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:24:53 CST, RandallM said:

> when will this be recognized as such?

Formal declarations of war are *soooo* 20th Century.  Mostly because
it's pretty damned obvious that there's a war on when 3 divisions of
infantry and a division of heavy armored roll across the border.  And if
there *aren't* a few divisions crossing the border, a "Declaration of War"
is only a "Declaration of Highly Miffed".

You know what *else* besides "cyberwar" is random, disorganized, mostly
opportunistic drive-by's of targets doing no *real* damage and nobody takes
public responsibility for? Graffiti.

When we see a cyber-based attack that does as much *actual damage* as
a military invasion, then we'll talk.  Even something Panama or Grenada
sized:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Grenada

Till then, it's not cyber-war, it's cyber-graffiti.

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