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[Georg Schoefbaenker <schoefbaenker -! - aon - at>]

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Letzte Woche waren es beim Wall-Street Artikel erst 20 Staaten mit
aggressiven IW Programmen, jetzt sind es schon 30 nach australischen
Militärkreisen.

GS

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1416000/1416543.stm

Sunday, 1 July, 2001, 12:37 GMT 13:37 UK 
Cyberwar the coming threat

Computers rather than missiles could pose the biggest security threat of the future with nations able to cripple rivals by using cyberwarfare, a top official has warned. 

Admiral Chris Barrie, chief of the Australian Defence Forces, told a weekend conference in Sydney that more than 30 countries have advanced and aggressive programmes for waging war by computer. 

Cyberattacks will provide ...adversaries with new options ...

Computer strikes could damage a country's infrastructure as well as defence equipment, cutting off communications, power supplies and military command systems, he said.

Highly computerised nations like the United States and Australia were particularly vulnerable and had to protect themselves, Admiral Barrie warned. 

Addressing a conference on Asia-Pacific security at Sydney University, the admiral said computer warfare programmes were a cheap and effective way to attack. 

"Cyberattacks will provide both state and non-state adversaries with new options beyond mere words but short of physical attack," he said. 

He predicted that such programmes would become a full part of a country's arsenal over the next decade and beyond. 

Stability challenged 

Admiral Barrie also warned that the Asia-Pacific region had embarked on a major weapons modernisation spree, posing a serious challenge to stability. 

"The introduction into the region of high technology warfare capability, the development of weapons of mass destruction...and the increased threat from non-traditional military sources are serious challenges for the region and we need to address them." 

Failure to do so, he said, would have far-reaching ramifications for the region's stability. 

Arms market 

Admiral Barrie noted that Pakistan and India had not only gone nuclear but had also developed long-range ballistic missiles that could reach targets outside South Asia. 

North Korea, meanwhile, continued to export missile technology. 

His view was shared by Pentagon official, Peter Verga, US deputy under-secretary of defence for policy support. 

Mr Verga said the Asia-Pacific region had been identified in the mid-1990s as the next great growth area by arms manufacturers. 

That was briefly halted by the 1997-1998 Asian economic crisis, but as economies recovered, the potential for arms sales returned, he said. 


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