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Militaries are built to hit back rather than prosecute; by this logic DOD systems could protect themselves by downloading a disabling virus into a hacker's computer system. Yet, assume, despite serious technical obstacles, that the approach works. Imagine, then, a hacker breaking into, say, CNN's computers, and from there into DOD. A DOD system instantly retaliates by dropping a virus into CNN, which, understandably, objects. Consequences ensue. 4. ~' It is difficult to see how the NII can be secure without the use of encryption, "See, for instance, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council's Cryptography 's Role in Securing the Information Society (Washington, DC: National Academy of Science Press), 1996.
Hacker attacks, even those that cause no damage, can mark cyberspace as a lawless environment. 42 Defending Cyberspace and Other Metaphors hackers can attack a system from anywhere around the globe without leaving detectable virtual fingerprints suggests that the risk of punishment is Hackers supported by foreign governments may be detected but later hidden (perhaps by allied TCOs) or discovered but not lie beyond extradition. Should deterrence be part of a nation's information defense strategy?
In a similar fashion, the newest version of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) can sharply reduce many threats such as source-address-spoofing, source-related routing attacks, password sniffing, and connection hijacking. 26 Defending Cyberspace and Other Metaphors a faulty software patch). There is no evidence that any financial system has ever had its financial integrity put at risk by a hacker attack. A parallel security issue may be drawn with the security of the United States's rail system: unprotected rural train tracks are easy to sabotage, and with grimmer results than virtually any network failure, but until the Arizona train crash in 1995, such sabotage had not occurred in fifty years.
