State Sponsored Open Source Warfare
Description
John Robb:
"Nation-states, unable to officially conduct warfare in cyberspace and unable to win against an open source opponent via conventional means, will eventually embrace open source warfare themselves to achieve stalemate." (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/01/journal-state-sponsored-open-source-warfare.html)
Examples
- China/Russia's embrace of open source cyberwarfare (against the US, Estonia, Georgia, etc.).
- The US military's embrace of open source militias (Anbar Awakening) to achieve a level of controlled chaos in Iraq.
Israel
From Haaretz:
"The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an "army of bloggers," to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in "anti-Zionist blogs" in English, French, Spanish and German.
During the war, we looked for a way to contribute to the effort," the ministry's director general, Erez Halfon, told Haaretz. "We turned to this enormous reservoir of more than a million people with a second mother tongue." Other languages in which bloggers are sought include Russian and Portuguese.
Halfon said volunteers who send the Absorption Ministry their contact details by e-mail, at [email protected], will be registered according to language, and then passed on to the Foreign Ministry's media department, whose personnel will direct the volunteers to Web sites deemed "problematic."
Within 30 minutes of announcing the program, which was approved by the Foreign Ministry on Sunday, five volunteers were already in touch, Halfon said."
(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056648.html)
More Information
- Five-page report: Open-Source Warfare By Robert N. Charette, First Published November 2007
See also from John Robb: