WikiLeaks Cyberwarfare? (Updated 10 Dec.)

I hope SWJ does away with anonymous posting. If one is of a mind to opine, and chooses to have some degree of personal stand-off, is it too much to ask to come up with some pithy ID?

Thanks for the link to Wings over Iraq. Plan on checking it out, real soon;-)

Wait, Anonymous replied to this thread?

OMG!! He's here to hack SWJ!

Carl Prine was the first to "coin" the COINdinista term. Credit where credit is due.

I hope i get to coin the term "cybernistas" here in parallel with the good COL Gentile's "COIN-danistas".

Anybody find a credible reference book with the word "cyber" defined yet? (Serious question - if you have it, I need it). (Note: not looking for "cyberspace" or "cybernetics" - just "cyber")

That's kind of important since there seems to be this new fetish about using "cyber" as prefix or modifier for all sorts of terms. (Current faves are "cyberintellect" and "cyberhygiene".)

The current working definition of cyber warfare is "an armed conflict conducted in whole or in part by Cyber means. Military operations conducted to deny an opposing force effective use of cyberspace systems and weapons in a conflict. Includes cyber attack, cyber defense, and cyber enabling actions." (this comes from VCJS "Cyber Lexicon" memo currently making the rounds.)

So, without another definition, I'd say no.

It seems like WikiLeaks has created a cycle -- release information, USG responds with pressure in various places, the Internet Hate Machine (Anonymous) goes into action and replicates the information so that the effects of USG pressure are negligible in cutting access to the information, USG seemingly gives up, then the cycle starts over.

How do we stop the release or replication process? It's been suggested that the weak point in the WikiLeaks scheme would be the people closest to Assange.

Agree Herschel, hence the question mark. Technically, inconvenience does not fit into the "school book" definition of cyber warfare.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in legal space, e.g., is dropping the domain name legal and should the U.S. government have the power to force this, versus free speech viz. First Amendment.

However, I don't believe that this (i.e., Wikileaks apparatchiks taking revenge) approaches the level of actual "cyberwarfare." Now the Stuxnet worm - that's real cyberwarfare, probably done by the Mossad and done right.

Good collection of news. It's going to be interesting to see how things like the Espionage Act could be re-written or differently applied once all this goes away.

I've been trying to make some sense of it..I don't know though.
http://sonnblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/our-leaky-nation.html

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WikiLeaks Cyberwarfare? (Updated 10 Dec.)

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