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Iran has recently become a hot topic internationally. What the United States and Iran will do in the future has also become the focus of everyone’s attention. Usually, everyone cares about what weapons the two sides will use and what targets they will attack. But many people may not know that the United States and Iran have fought on the Internet several times before you came to the aircraft missiles.
Although information security is not my area of expertise, I always pay attention to news in this area. As it happens, I also recently read The Perfect Weapon, a New York Times reporter David E. Sanger, who fully explained the Internet and information warfare in 2018. There are a lot of articles about the information warfare between the United States and Iran, which are full of many interesting things. detail. Considering that there is no Chinese version of this book, I have extracted some of the content I have read here for reference by interested readers.
David E.Sanger and The Perfect Weapon
In the first few years of this century, how the information war was fought and how to use the network to launch attacks, even the United States had no concept. For the people at the time, this was a problem that could not be imagined. Even after the United States realized the importance of information network offense and defense, even after the establishment of a special network command, military personnel still could not understand the importance of information warfare. -This is a bit like the situation almost a hundred years ago, when the army was under the army and navy. As for the (not yet independent) The Air Force, “They are in the sky, they ca n’t even see the enemy ’s face, how can they say that they can fight?”
Nevertheless, in those years the U.S. military has begun to think about security issues in the information age.question. Traditionally, national security is guaranteed by nuclear weapons, and the policy of “ensuring mutual destruction” guarantees security among nuclear powers. But in the 21st century, nuclear weapons are no longer a powerful weapon for national security. Because the threat does not necessarily come from other big countries, not even from one country. For a long time, every country has a mature mechanism on how to deal with nuclear war. For example, it continuously monitors missile / rocket launches of other countries, and once it is judged as a nuclear missile, it immediately launches a plan.
Introduction to US Missile Defense System
However, if an information attack is launched, all existing mechanisms will fail: if you are aware of the information attack, it is likely that the attack has occurred for a long time; at the same time, it is difficult to determine where the attack came from. “Broiler” in other places; not to mention, even if you know the identity of the attacker, it is difficult to launch an effective counterattack. A method like “retaliation against nuclear missiles” is useless in the information age .
Also in the early years of the twentieth century, Iran accelerated its nuclear program. Iran’s nuclear program has made Israel highly nervous. Knowing that Israel is surrounded by Arab countries, it has been pursuing a sense of security since its birth. At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asked US President George W. Bush for a ground-bomb to completely destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. But fearing of uncontrollable consequences, Bush Jr. rejected Netanyahu’s request.
Nevertheless, Bush Jr. has to resolve security issues for Israel. The end result is that the United States and Israel jointly developed a virus, which will be known in the future as the “Zhen network (Stuxnet) ” virus. The specially designed virus attacked the other party’s information system, not just stealing intelligence. Zhennet virus set a precedent. Although everyone knows that the virus ’s name is “Zhenwang”, in fact, this project has a special code, called “Olympics