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Eine interessante Analyse des Informationskriegs zwischen Israel und der Hisbollah aus der Ecole de Guerre Economique:

Une illustration de la guerre de l’informat... l’été 2006

Das immer leseswerte Buch des Social Engineers Kevin D. Mitnick hat nichts von seiner Brisanz verloren:

The Art of Intrusion

In his new book, Mitnick goes one step further than he did in The Art of Deception, offering hair-raising stories of real-life computer break-ins-and showing how the victims could have prevented them. Mitnick’s reputation within the hacker community gave him unique credibility with the perpetrators of these crimes, who freely shared their stories with him-and whose exploits Mitnick now reveals in detail for the first time, including:

* A group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las Vegas by reverse-engineering slot machines

* Two teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the Lockheed Martin computer systems

* Two convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas prison

* A “Robin Hood” hacker who penetrated the computer systems of many prominent companies and then told them how he gained access

With riveting “you are there” descriptions of real computer break-ins, indispensable tips on countermeasures security professionals need to implement now, and Mitnick’s own acerbic commentary on the crimes he describes, this book is sure to reach a wide audience-and attract the attention of both law enforcement agencies and the media.

Auszug aus der Zeitschrift digma über das Thema IO

www.crypto.rub.de/imperia/md/content/lectures/kritis/digma_2004.2_fokus_io.pdf

Hier finden Sie eine Übersetzung der Schriften des grossen Meisters:

http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html

Die Entwicklung bei den US Streitkräften zeigt die steigende Wichtigkeit der InfoOps. Alleine die US Luftwaffe beschäftigt über 40′000 Angehörige in diesem Bereich.

Die Netzwerke werden zu Gravitationszentren aktueller und zukünftiger Auseinandersetzungen erklärt. Da können die entsprechenden schweizerischen Bestrebungen nicht falsch sein?

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91131

Source: PR Week, July 30, 2007

In preparing its marketing study commissioned by the U.S. military, the RAND Corporation sought the advice of PR advisers including Burson-Marsteller, Weber Shandwick, J.D. Power, the Rendon Group, and the Lincoln Group. The report called for a review of the Smith-Mundt Act, which bans government propaganda aimed at U.S. audiences, claiming that it put the military at a “competitive disadvantage”. Paige Craig, from the Lincoln Group, complained to PR Week that “it’s almost embarrassing to sit here and realize we’ve got the talent and ability to counter what the adversary makes; it’s simply a matter of policy.”

http://www.prwatch.org/node/6306

“Information is like iron filings: elemental, common, and formless.That is, until a magnet passes by and all of a sudden patterns emerge that reveal the formerly invisible magnetic force…and suddenly the iron filings have a coherence, a pattern, even a beauty.

We have a creative and evolutionary need to make order out of chaos, or knowledge out of information.”

http://www.bestlibrary.org/databases/2006/12/..._is_inform.html

Eine Datenbank ist eine organsierte Sammlung von Information in digitaler Form

nicht vergessen:

“Information is not Knowledge”

In den USA hat die Industrie rund USD 7 Mrd. Umsatz generiert. Sie verzeichnet ein jährliches Wachstum von 8,5% und beschäftigt über 50′000 Personen. Eine Vielzahl dieser Firmen waren in Desinformations-Kampagnen involviert. Desinformation gehört heute zum Standard der Industrie, der Politik und der Wirtschaftsakteure.