Britain applies military thinking to the growing spectre of cyberwar
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 08/03/2010 03:38
The control room at Little Earth Corporation, where staff field 24-hour-a-day, 365 days a year surveillance of cyber attacks
Harry was a Russian secret service agent who spoke perfect English and wore cowboy boots with his uniform. I never knew what his face looked like because he wore a mask during the lengthy interrogation sessions he put me through during five days of captivity in Federal Security Service (FSB) hands in Chechnya in 1999. The first item taken from me by Harry and his friends was my laptop. I was as much unnerved as relieved when it was returned on my release. "I can have it back?" "Yeah, have it back," the FSB agent replied, and laughed.
Within 24 hours of arriving home in London the laptop was deluged with spam, pornography and Russian hate mail, eventually crashing completely. The act was more a digital slap on the wrist than the attacks that the Russians would allegedly inflict on entire countries several years later, but it was my first experience of cyberwar.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7053270.ece