Cyber Cold War? - 1 views

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  #1 Ang Yao Zong on 13 Oct 09

   

  The following websites relate to "Cyber Warfare" that is conducted over cyberspace.
  
  1) http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6699021.html (China)
  
  The above article first starts off by describing how international terrorist organisations are using the Internet to adapt to their own purposes and terrorist activities, with the Taliban being one of the examples cited.
  
  The interesting part actually occurs when the article ends off with "This is not because that cunning Al-Qaeda has many places to hide, but because every website on which news is released will be hijacked by US army network."
  
  
  2) http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/30/obama-orders-military-to-focus-on-cyber-warfare/ (America)
  
  This website from America describes how the US describes how the US military is creating its first "cyber command" designed to "bolster America's potential to wage digital warfare as well as defend against mounting cyber threats."
  
  
  3)http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2409865.ece (UK)
  
  This last website from the United Kingdom describes how hackers employed by the Chinese military are on a warpath to assert China's "electrical dominance" over global rivals. This article interestingly, ends off with an official from the Pentagon stating how "China is aggressive in this", meaning how China is aggressive in deriving cyber solutions to defend against, and cause, maximum strategic damage by taking out banking systems, power grids and communications networks.
  
  
  Based on the three perspectives of the websites, we can see that there seems to be a "Cold War-esque" confrontation that is arising in cyberspace. The two world superpowers (US and China) are seemingly trying assert their political and geographical clout into the digital realm and the world's information system networks are at stake in this political game of one-uping each other.
  
  If both countries start to monitor and infiltrate websites beyond those that are hosted on their local servers, will this warrant an investigation into the violation of privacy and sovereign rights?
  
  Terrorist networks could be clamped down via such online surveillance but would the hundreds of terabytes of data that flow freely over the Internet be at stake and lead to a restriction on individual freedom of speech?
  
  Finally, would Internet users be willing to give up personal privacy and speech rights) in exchange for the possible mitigation of future terrorist risks through the increased crackdown on terrorism websites over the Internet?

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The following websites relate to "Cyber Warfare" that is conducted over cyberspace. <br /> <br /> 1) <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6699021.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6699021.html</a> (China) <br /> <br /> The above article first starts off by describing how international terrorist organisations are using the Internet to adapt to their own purposes and terrorist activities, with the Taliban being one of the examples cited. <br /> <br /> The interesting part actually occurs when the article ends off with "This is not because that cunning Al-Qaeda has many places to hide, but because every website on which news is released will be hijacked by US army network." <br /> <br /> <br /> 2) <a href="http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/30/obama-orders-military-to-focus-on-cyber-warfare/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/30/obama-orders-military-to-focus-on-cyber-warfare/</a> (America) <br /> <br /> This website from America describes how the US describes how the US military is creating its first "cyber command" designed to "bolster America's potential to wage digital warfare as well as defend against mounting cyber threats." <br /> <br /> <br /> 3)<a href="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2409865.ece" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2409865.ece</a> (UK) <br /> <br /> This last website from the United Kingdom describes how hackers employed by the Chinese military are on a warpath to assert China's "electrical dominance" over global rivals. This article interestingly, ends off with an official from the Pentagon stating how "China is aggressive in this", meaning how China is aggressive in deriving cyber solutions to defend against, and cause, maximum strategic damage by taking out banking systems, power grids and communications networks. <br /> <br /> <br /> Based on the three perspectives of the websites, we can see that there seems to be a "Cold War-esque" confrontation that is arising in cyberspace. The two world superpowers (US and China) are seemingly trying assert their political and geographical clout into the digital realm and the world's information system networks are at stake in this political game of one-uping each other. <br /> <br /> If both countries start to monitor and infiltrate websites beyond those that are hosted on their local servers, will this warrant an investigation into the violation of privacy and sovereign rights? <br /> <br /> Terrorist networks could be clamped down via such online surveillance but would the hundreds of terabytes of data that flow freely over the Internet be at stake and lead to a restriction on individual freedom of speech? <br /> <br /> Finally, would Internet users be willing to give up personal privacy and speech rights) in exchange for the possible mitigation of future terrorist risks through the increased crackdown on terrorism websites over the Internet?</div>

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