This constant war is going to establish dominance of communications, info, etc
It is being used for spying by collecting user data
It is being used to hack other countries system and spoil, damage and access their systems. examples are cyber attacks.
The cyber attacks and digital damages cost the world around 600Billion$ per year, and this is just the beginning.
Attack opportunities:
Technologically advanced and powerful societies
Information-intensive military organizations
Globalization has dramatically increased international flows of goods, services, people and money, improving access to information, technology, and their military applications.
The rapid movement of currency in and out of countries by currency speculators can extract a devastating cost on countries that do not have large currency reserves.
Access Opportunities:
The truth.
Scientific research – The Internet allows a global scientific community to exchange information on topics that can be easily exploited by non-state actors.
Strategic information – the information that confers great advantage only if competitors do not possess it.
Encryption technologies which increase their anonymity and make it difficult for states to disrupt and dismantle their operations.
Communicate with wider audiences and with each other over greater distances, recruit new members, and diffuse and control their operations more widely and from afar.
Offensive information warfare capabilities because of their relative cheapness, accessibility and commercial origins.
Reliance on information technology also creates vulnerabilities for non-state actors.
Risks
Computers centralize information, and confiscation of them by law enforcement agencies can undercut terrorist operations.
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are becoming increasingly adept at monitoring communications equipment – cell phones, satellite phones, and the Internet – for digital traces.
