The recent media furor over Wiki Leaks and it’s founder, Julian Assange reminded me that I had a prediction on the table regarding cyber wars. During last week’s cyber attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and other major targets, cyber hackers acted in defiance of the global system and began a proactive defense of the WikiLeaks, slamming servers once believed impenetrable.:Pro-WikiLeaks hackers may be hard for U.S. to pursue – NEW YORK | Fri Dec 17, 2010-a group of Internet activists working under the name Operation Payback claimed responsibility for the attacks, which briefly shut down the websites of several companies that had cut off services to WikiLeaks after the whistleblower organization last month made public a massive trove of secret U.S. diplomatic cables.
“WikiLeaks’ Next Target: Bank of America?” The New York Times. December 2, 2010.
This article was posted to the Threshing Floor Blog on October 23, 2009—a full year before the WikiLeaks inspired attacks. The cyber wars are just beginning
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I predict one of the great wars of the near-future will be tech wars on the web.
… Poland, the Ukraine, the former Soviet satellite states all hold untold numbers of young, tech-savvy ex-patriates who hack, crack, and exploit for the sheer joy of confounding and infuriating their counterparts in the military, intelligence, and industrial-financial systems.
