Do you fancy opening your next office in Baghdad? Kabul? Beirut? Bogata? Medellin?
No? Why not? Could it be because you do NOT want your employees or clients to get caught in a crossfire?
That’s EXACTLY what you’re doing when you setup shop in “the cloud”.
A 3-pronged cyberwar has been going on for over a decade:
Battleground 1: Criminals vs consumers – malware, spyware, banking trojans
Battleground 2: Governments vs citizens – ECPA, Patriot Act, CISPA, ACTA, 3-strikes laws
Battleground 3: Governments/societies vs Governments – Stuxnet, Flame, Vupen exploits, China vs. Google, Brazil vs. Google, India vs. RIM, etc
From June 1, 2012 NYTimes.com:
From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.
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Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.
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Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet.
via Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran – NYTimes.com.
