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1 Information Weapon: Concepts, Means, Methods …
Military men have always tried to influence the information required by the enemy
to effectively manage their own forces. Usually, this was achieved through maneuvers and distracting actions. Since these strategies indirectly affected the information received by the enemy (through perception), these were indirect attacks of the
enemy’s information. That is, for this trick to be effective, the opponent had to do
three things: “observe deceptive actions,” “consider deception to be true,” “after
deception, act in accordance with the goals of the deceiver.” Modern technologies
allow the enemy to change or create information prior to receiving the facts and their
interpretation. Let us draw up a short list of the characteristics of modern information
systems, leading to the appearance of such vulnerabilities: concentrated data storage,
access speed, ubiquitous information transfer, and a great potential of information
systems to perform their functions separately. Protection mechanisms can reduce this
vulnerability, but not to zero.
For instance, nowadays it is impossible to imagine both the life of an ordinary
person and the functioning of a variety of modern infrastructures responsible for the
socio-economic well-being of citizens and for a whole range of problems related to
the national security of the state without information and communication technologies (ICT) and telecommunication systems (TCS) developed on their basis. TCS (or,
as they are often called, information and communication technologies) have penetrated into all spheres of human life, but the most active results of their development
are used in the interests of military and special departments.
In the secret “warfare” of technical geniuses, which has been going on for a while,
there can be no unambiguous victory of only one of the participants in this “technological race”: science and technology have no national or geographical boundaries—
there is always a “shield” for any “weapon,” and this is well understood by experts
of the governments of all world powers.
Nevertheless, with regard to the immediate and medium-term prospects for the
development of a variety of information technology weapons, the governments of all
developed industrial countries have imposed a secret “veto” on publication of key
technical aspects of concepts and prospects for further development in all publicly
available science and technology periodicals.
Surely enough, at international conferences, symposia, in the science and technology press, certain aspects of this problem are actively discussed, since business,
including in this sphere, must develop and conquer new niches. The world’s leading
semiconductor firms are very actively working in this direction, since “business is
business.”
At the same time, military departments of the world’s leading powers, who are
aware of the real state of affairs and possible unique prospects for the development
of this direction, sufficiently finance a number of individual projects and special
comprehensive programs.
As shown in our book, (“Introduction to High-Speed Electronic Devices
Design.”—Moscow: Technosphere, 2017), in 2014, to counter the threats to national
security in the military sphere and ensure absolute technological superiority, the US
1 Information Weapon: Concepts, Means, Methods …
Military men have always tried to influence the information required by the enemy
to effectively manage their own forces. Usually, this was achieved through maneuvers and distracting actions. Since these strategies indirectly affected the information received by the enemy (through perception), these were indirect attacks of the
enemy’s information. That is, for this trick to be effective, the opponent had to do
three things: “observe deceptive actions,” “consider deception to be true,” “after
deception, act in accordance with the goals of the deceiver.” Modern technologies
allow the enemy to change or create information prior to receiving the facts and their
interpretation. Let us draw up a short list of the characteristics of modern information
systems, leading to the appearance of such vulnerabilities: concentrated data storage,
access speed, ubiquitous information transfer, and a great potential of information
systems to perform their functions separately. Protection mechanisms can reduce this
vulnerability, but not to zero.
For instance, nowadays it is impossible to imagine both the life of an ordinary
person and the functioning of a variety of modern infrastructures responsible for the
socio-economic well-being of citizens and for a whole range of problems related to
the national security of the state without information and communication technologies (ICT) and telecommunication systems (TCS) developed on their basis. TCS (or,
as they are often called, information and communication technologies) have penetrated into all spheres of human life, but the most active results of their development
are used in the interests of military and special departments.
In the secret “warfare” of technical geniuses, which has been going on for a while,
there can be no unambiguous victory of only one of the participants in this “technological race”: science and technology have no national or geographical boundaries—
there is always a “shield” for any “weapon,” and this is well understood by experts
of the governments of all world powers.
Nevertheless, with regard to the immediate and medium-term prospects for the
development of a variety of information technology weapons, the governments of all
developed industrial countries have imposed a secret “veto” on publication of key
technical aspects of concepts and prospects for further development in all publicly
available science and technology periodicals.
Surely enough, at international conferences, symposia, in the science and technology press, certain aspects of this problem are actively discussed, since business,
including in this sphere, must develop and conquer new niches. The world’s leading
semiconductor firms are very actively working in this direction, since “business is
business.”
At the same time, military departments of the world’s leading powers, who are
aware of the real state of affairs and possible unique prospects for the development
of this direction, sufficiently finance a number of individual projects and special
comprehensive programs.
As shown in our book, (“Introduction to High-Speed Electronic Devices
Design.”—Moscow: Technosphere, 2017), in 2014, to counter the threats to national
security in the military sphere and ensure absolute technological superiority, the US