Example of a company destroyed in this manner would be Nortel?
On 22 January 2016 at 00:48, Dave Aitel <[email protected]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list [email protected] https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
