Talk:Cyber-warfare

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I would like to know about the communication and cyber warfare regarding following points 1. Roll and need for communication in battle field. 2. Decision making and avability of current information 3. Devices and equipments used in communication. 4. Future cyber warfare. 5. Strategy adopted by INDIA,USA,ENGLAND,GERMANY in cyber warfare.124.7.81.96 05:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)aditya

I can understand your questions, but I believe your misunderstanding the subject. The questions that you are asking would be more of Cybernetic warfare. Cyber warfare is computers/equipment attacking computers/equipment. Although communications does play a part in this form of warfare it is the communications of computer to computer. This subject does play an integral part of normal warfare because if you can attack the computers in a command centre that is deploying armaments and successfully shut them down or mislead/misdirect then it hinders the operations of that command centre... maybe to the point of being shut down completely. --Pmedema 16:03, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Estonia convicts local man over alleged "Russian cyber-war"

Estonia arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced a local 20yr-old man, Dmitri Galushkevich, for launching the attacks from the comfort of his home in Tallin. The court fined him less than US$2,000 in Estonia's local currency.

This article reads as if Russia actually did attack Estonia: a wild initial speculation that was dismissed after Estonia revealed details of the attack. Overall, the article reads like a magazine story. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsnbrgr (talk • contribs) 03:35, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Mr. Galushkevich's actions were but a small part in the whole attack. He was not convicted for the attacks but for an attack. The claim of Russia being responsible is not wild at all considering the declarations of Russian officials and the actions of Kremlin youth organisation at the time. Oth (talk) 19:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

More important to me: I thank you for NPOVing the statement I brought into question. Less important to me: if you can source relevant information in the attack re: Russian officials and the role of Kremlin youth organizations, then why didn't you include it in your own edits? Please note that I'm not calling into question the claim you made on this talk page — I'm just saying that (as you must well know!) you don't always need to be an expert to append an obviously relevant fact to an article. If Kremlin officials actually stated or implied Russia wants to use its computing might to hurl Estonia's IP space back to the transistor age, then this is exactly the article where it should be stated & sourced. Again, thank you for NPOVing the statement I brought into question. Rob Rosenberger (talk) 01:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

As far I know, the issue has attracted lots of diverse coverage and I am simply not knowledgable enough to assess the value of different opinions. But given the extremely hostile atmosphere at the time, Russia remains a very probable source even if we never know wether the hackers responsible where mobilised by authorities or did they act on their own accord. Oth (talk) 08:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Confirmation of known attacks

The United States has come under attack from countries such as China and Russia. See Titan Rain and Moonlight Maze.[8]

This statement seems like it could use some rewording. The citation it points to have no active link to read up on the article, so I can't be sure whether the article states definitely that the US was attacked by so-and-so, or whether it was alleged that the US was attacked by so-and-so. However, the Wikipedia articles the statement points to simply state that the identities of the attackers cannot be confirmed. China and Russia are suspected but are not definitely known to have done so. --132.206.54.86 (talk) 14:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)