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Information Warfare: Time to Prepare
Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY
Author: Bruce Berkowitz
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 1/1/2002
Size: 231 Words, 1,582 Characters

The potential civilian targets of an IW strike could be any communications system or computer network, or any part of a country's infrastructure that depends on such networks. Consider some examples...

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...emingly unimportant companies might be lost in the heat of a national crisis and might be hard to detect.

Most military and government personnel use the same banks and financial institutions as the general public. If these are insecure, it would be possible for an adversary to target the data records of key individuals, either to collect compromising information or to plant disinformation.



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