POLS 1160 Lecture 9: Cyber Conflict
16 Feb 2017
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Low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means smaller actors have more capacity to exercise hard and soft party in cyberspace that in many more traditional domains of world politics. Changes in info have always had important impact on power: cyber domain is new and a volatile manmade environment. Characteristics of cyberspace reduce some power differentials among actors: provide good example of diffusion of power that typifies global politics in this century, us has a lot of power in offensive domain but very weak defensively. Largest powers are unlikely to be able to dominate this domain as much as they have others like seas or air. Power is the ability to influence combined with capabilities, situation, and willingness. Distributed denial of service (ddos: botnets or zombies utilized to send high traffic to a website or network and shut it down. Intrusions: remotely injected software, benign at first to avoid detection, activated at a later time.
