Comments on: How to wage cyber warfare: The super empowered individual, Part 8 http://selil.com/?p=783 Professors Sam and Sydney Liles: Cyber warfare, privacy, computer security, computer forensics, technology, and more Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:34:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Richard B http://selil.com/?p=783&cpage=1#comment-425 Richard B Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:17:10 +0000 http://selil.com/?p=783#comment-425 A thought-provoking post. Thanks. In discussing force multipliers for SEIs, we might think of anonymity as a supplemental force multiplier. OBL and company have repeatedly added to their mayhem by carefully choosing when, and whether, to acknowledge their part in an attack. A better example might be the (1960?) Saigon bicycle bombings, intended as misdirection and more effective because no one claimed responsibility and therefore the insurgents couldn't as effectively defend their innocence. What I find especially troubling about prospects for anonymous SEIs and similar small group attacks is the potential resulting harm to our civil liberties. Anonyimous attacks are very plausible in our 2009 but much more difficult in Orwell's 1984. Given the aftermath of 911 we can only wonder how far a government might be allowed to go after an anonymous mega-death event. My (beginning) thoughts on this fear are posted at http://sustainablerights.blogspot.com/ . All feedback is appreciated, especially opposing viewpoints. A thought-provoking post. Thanks.

In discussing force multipliers for SEIs, we might think of anonymity as a supplemental force multiplier. OBL and company have repeatedly added to their mayhem by carefully choosing when, and whether, to acknowledge their part in an attack. A better example might be the (1960?) Saigon bicycle bombings, intended as misdirection and more effective because no one claimed responsibility and therefore the insurgents couldn’t as effectively defend their innocence.

What I find especially troubling about prospects for anonymous SEIs and similar small group attacks is the potential resulting harm to our civil liberties. Anonyimous attacks are very plausible in our 2009 but much more difficult in Orwell’s 1984. Given the aftermath of 911 we can only wonder how far a government might be allowed to go after an anonymous mega-death event. My (beginning) thoughts on this fear are posted at http://sustainablerights.blogspot.com/ . All feedback is appreciated, especially opposing viewpoints.

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