Comments on: ‘Flame’ Spyware Infiltrating Iranian Computers

By: akuperma

akuperma — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:53:11 +0000

#5- “old fashioned” war involved having your family killed in a gas chamber, having your neighborhood reduced to ash and rouble, having your born torn to bits by shrapnel – and has a side effect it usually involved plague, famine, and all sorts of horrible things. We know too much about the good old days…

By: shazam

shazam — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:28:08 +0000

#1: It’s not as simple as having your hard drive wiped. How about your electricity shut off, you water poisoned, and your food supply tainted? Oh, and cyber war can very easily burn your house down – and worse – like prescribing the wrong medication for your kids, R”L.

Cyber war can also get your wife to divorce you, wipe out your bank account, and leave your with a police record as a criminal or pedophile.

And it can be done in a heartbeat with you unwittingly helping the process.

This is not a joke – we have been at this war for at least ten years. Most of the world doesn’t realize how serious it already is.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:51:26 +0000

#2 – I’ld much rather have my hard drive wiped than having my house burned down and my kids dismembered. Imagine if all we blamed the Romans, Crusaders and Nazis for was corrupting datafiles or making our computers run slow.

By: Aryeh Zelasko

Aryeh Zelasko — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:54:46 +0000

Sabotaging the enemies infrastructure and sowing seeds of paranoia are not new. Winning the invisible war against the enemy makes winning the killing war much easier and less bloody for us. If successful enough, the killing war can be avoided altogether. That in effect is how Regan defeated the Soviet Union.

By: shazam

shazam — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:38:34 +0000

#1: I’m not so sure. Cyber warfare has the potential for killing millions of people.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:57:31 +0000

Barukh ha-Shem we live in an age in which wars are fought by hackers. The old style of going around killing people and leveling cities is so uncool.