August 30, 2007

Computer attack first step to war!

The much reported incident where it is believed that Chinese military or part of it at least planned and executed computer attacks on some of the German governments networks, as lead to the belief that this sort of cyber attack could the prelude to an all out military attack.

China has for a long time seen the rest of world’s reliance on computers as a weakness, and therefore has gone about to see how weak and what sort of disruption could be done. If we think about it, an attack on the computer network could in fact bring the west to its knees very quickly.

As part of the Chinese military build up over the past twenty years or so, there has been an investment in information technology, not how to integrate into their system, but rather how to exploit it. It would appear that the Chinese military would use this as a prelude to an attack, if they were so inclined to do so that is.

Could it be that the first indication of war would be chaos?

Source [IHT]