Cyber War

When I think of the term Cyber War I think of a couple of scenarios. Like in Terminator 3 when they decide to put SKYNET in control everything just fails. From super computers to cell phones would be taken down not by a computer program but the person at the other end. They could choose what to take out, what would hurt the “enemy” the most.

Another scenario that comes to mind when I hear this subject is the movie “Live Free or Die Hard” starring Bruce Willis. The movie is about a hacker who used to work for the US and told them that the security for systems weren’t good enough. To prove his point the hacker takes down traffic lights, gains control of telecommunication systems and eventually turns it all off. The point of the movie is the real scare of what would happen if such and event happened. We would be put back into the Stone Age.

We as the United States of America have basically handed our controls over. The computers and network hardware we use are all assembled in foreign countries. I watched a video on the Internet that shows that the builder of the chipset can put a code a processor that would change its directives. For example if the chipset is installed into a missile, the chip could prevent if from being launched once the sequence has been detected by the chip. However, in that same video they state that we are now making our own chips for our equipment because the threat has been found to be true in tested cases.

Here is a website I found to be interesting. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/