Cyber wars: Another threat to humanity?

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I recently posted an article on the effect of Nuclear weapons on our world, earth. We all know that the effect cannot be over emphasised. In a reply to what pangoli@pangoli said, I pointed out a future where, wars will be more fierce and more dangerous but easily achievable through cyber attacks and activities.

Glancing through a little history of cyber wars, we have this;


  • 2008 cyberattack on United States , cyber espionage
    targeting U.S. military computers
  • Cyber attack during the Paris G20 Summit , targeting
    G20-related documents including financial information

  • GhostNet

  • Moonlight Maze

  • Operation Newscaster , cyber espionage covert operation
    allegedly conducted by Iran

  • Operation Cleaver , cyberwarfare covert operation
    allegedly conducted by Iran

  • Shadow Network, attacks on India by China

  • Titan Rain , targeting defense contractors in the United
    States

  • Google – in 2009, the Chinese hackers breached
    Google's corporate servers gained access to a database
    containing classified information about suspected spies,
    agents, and terrorists under surveillance by the US
    government.

  • gauss trojan, discovered in 2012 is a state-sponsored
    computer espionage operation that uses state-of-the-art
    software to extract a wealth of sensitive data from
    thousands of machines located mostly in the Middle
    East.
  • Office of Personnel Management data breach—Dec 2014
    breach of data on U.S. government employees
    A six-month-long cyberattack on the German parliament
    for which the Sofacy Group is suspected took place in
    December 2014.
  • Vestige is also suspected to be behind a spearphishing
    attack in August 2016 on members of the Bundestag and
    multiple political parties such as Linken -faction leader
    Sahra Wagenknecht , Junge Union and the CDU of
    Saarland. Authorities fear that sensitive
    information could be gathered by hackers to later
    manipulate the public ahead of elections such as
    Germany's next federal election due in September

Source:Wikipedia


One shouldn't freak out over all this histories and actually they are histories, which shouldn't judge us. We should base our gaze on the future that we are very very close to.


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But that future, what determines it? histories!

We've seen different form of cyber attacks on varying aspect of our life from politics to education, to law, to policing etc, hackers have successful get their way into most, if not all of this areas. They've successful get their hands on all this.

You might be thinking that too much of movies is affecting my judgement in this case(Mark Zuckerberg) actually said this, Hollywood or not, cyber wars is real and it's getting crazier, day by day.

You can't actually argue this fact out as its glaring how the cyber space is getting on a faster spree anyone can't even imagine.

Any solution

What if they can launch and we can destroy it?

That is actually what came to my mind, if they can launch then can't we destroy it?

I am quite sceptical about a World War III, which we can't ignore, because the pointers are on already, leaders are in disagreement, nations are against each other, permutation is on the rise between countries against another country. We can say this are signs of another global war., which I can say authoritatively that cyber wars will spearhead the fight.

Lets destroy this lethal weapons!

Thanks for your time.