Chapter 1
Information Weapon: Concepts, Means,
Methods, and Examples of Application
1.1 Information Security of a Modern State
1.1.1 Historical Aspects of the Emergence and Development
of Information Security
Historically, the category of “information security” emerged after the appearance
of the first means of information communication, due to the awareness of the fact
that people and their communities may have interests that could be damaged by the
deliberate impact on these means of information communication.
To trace the transformation of information security ideas in the foreseeable future,
it is necessary to distinguish several main stages in the development of the means of
information communication [1].
I. Stage 1—before 1816—characterized by the use of naturally emerging means
of information communication. During this period, the main task of information security was to protect information about events, facts, property,
whereabouts, and other data, vital for a particular person or community.
II. Stage 2—since 1816—associated with the beginning of the use of technical means of electrical and radio communication developed for a particular
purpose (telegraph, telephone). To ensure the security and noise immunity
of radio communication, it was necessary to use the experience of the first
stage of information security at a higher technological level. In this case,
noise-resistant message (signal) coding with the subsequent decoding of the
received message (signal) was used.
III. Stage 3—since 1935—associated with the advent of radar and sonar aids.
During this period, the main means of ensuring information security was a
combination of organizational and technical measures aimed at improving
the security of radar aids to protect their receiving devices from active noise
masking and passive noise simulation.
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Information Weapon: Concepts, Means,
Methods, and Examples of Application
1.1 Information Security of a Modern State
1.1.1 Historical Aspects of the Emergence and Development
of Information Security
Historically, the category of “information security” emerged after the appearance
of the first means of information communication, due to the awareness of the fact
that people and their communities may have interests that could be damaged by the
deliberate impact on these means of information communication.
To trace the transformation of information security ideas in the foreseeable future,
it is necessary to distinguish several main stages in the development of the means of
information communication [1].
I. Stage 1—before 1816—characterized by the use of naturally emerging means
of information communication. During this period, the main task of information security was to protect information about events, facts, property,
whereabouts, and other data, vital for a particular person or community.
II. Stage 2—since 1816—associated with the beginning of the use of technical means of electrical and radio communication developed for a particular
purpose (telegraph, telephone). To ensure the security and noise immunity
of radio communication, it was necessary to use the experience of the first
stage of information security at a higher technological level. In this case,
noise-resistant message (signal) coding with the subsequent decoding of the
received message (signal) was used.
III. Stage 3—since 1935—associated with the advent of radar and sonar aids.
During this period, the main means of ensuring information security was a
combination of organizational and technical measures aimed at improving
the security of radar aids to protect their receiving devices from active noise
masking and passive noise simulation.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
A. Belous and V. Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47218-4_1
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