US ready to respond to hacker attacks with military strike, or how virtual becomes real

    With the filing of Habr , I reread Alexander Chubaryan’s book “Full Root”, which I liked a few years ago. This time, the book seemed a little more pompous and funnier, and not least because of the strong dissonance between the reality to which we are accustomed and the one described in the book. Namely, the book tells about the future, in which network crimes are considered the most serious and for them they either give time limits as in Soviet times according to political articles, or a person who’s worthlessly killed is destroyed during detention. A brief historical background is also given - it all started after the hackers planted six or so planes past the runway, fulfilling contracts with al-Qaeda.

    It’s strange. It’s not as if they were sitting down past the runway — but we sort of saw the planes right at home with people — and this was already almost nine years ago, and there weren’t six planes, but as many as 11 (if the memory serves), one of them even The Pentagon turned into a Quadrogon. And, it seems, we have a network police - if I don’t confuse anything in the USA, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been dealing with these issues for a long time, we have department K (?). But something is not heard about carte blanche and murder licenses for these structures, cases of hackers being caught are infrequent, the word “hacker” doesn’t terrify anyone ... That is why the situation described in the book seems to be some kind of theater of absurdity. Well, I can’t believe that for sending two bytes they can quite painfully shoot themselves in the head or give a lifetime.

    But everything is subtly changing - the Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs, James Miller, states that the US can and will respond to hacker attacks with a military strike.

    Yes, it’s not yet clear to anyone. It is not clear where. It is not clear what exactly. But ready. Launched a port scanner (sorry - this is the smartest phrase that I read 10 years ago in the Hacker magazine and which is still in my memory) - get a carpet bombing. Absurdity is not so absurd.

    Not surprising. We have cyber army. Cyber ​​actions can cause serious damage. But cyber war is fleeting. Recovery period after any cyber diversion - just hours. In English, this is called hit-and-run. And everything seems to be already. The damage is done. War is over. The cyber-opponent is ready and awaits retaliatory actions in cyberspace - that is why these actions are likely to be without or little effect. The fight is over. And after the fight, they don’t wave their fists.

    But soon they will wave, but not with virtual fists. Give only time. Guys, the world is changing before our eyes. We’ve got used to the fact that they’re really planting it for LJ, and they are just fine, but also realistically, for Twitter (this is a MICRO blog, fools). Now let's get used to the fact that virtual aggressors will be forced to peace in real life.

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