Deterring Information Warfare

We are now seeing a tendency toward a shift in the center of gravity away from traditional methods of force and means of combat toward non-traditional methods, including information.Their impact is imperceptible and appears gradually.It is less burdensome economically and is not dangerous ecologically. . . .Thus today information and information technologies are becoming a real weapon.A weapon not just in a metaphoric sense but in a direct sense as well."[1] In 1995, a 28-year-old Russian biochemistry graduate student in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Levin, used sophisticated computer codes more than 40 times to break into New York Citicorp's computerized cash-management system.He transferred more than $12 million to banks around the world and had access to Citicorp's daily transfer of $500 billion.Only the cooperation of the FBI, Russian police, and law enforcement agencies on four continents prevented a catastrophe and eventually resulted in Levin's arrest.[2] Levin's "cybercaper" underscores the vulnerability of sensitive economic (and by analogy, defense) systems to computer hackers operating from terminals located anywhere in the world.An attack on any economy or defense structure conceivably could be initiated by any foreign government or hostile threat without forewarning or even physical evidence that it had occurred

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