Information Warfare: Second Edition

An expert on electronic privacy shows how "information warriors" are able to gain access to and use computerized data on ordinary individuals, and the threat such use poses to citizens and to national security. Original. Tour. IP. Of Views on IW / Frederick B. Cohen -- Model Disclaimer Between Former Adults / Matthew Gaylor -- An Introduction to Information Warfare -- Electronic Civil Defense / Winn Schwartau -- 1. The Econo-Politics of Information Warfare -- 2. Computers Everywhere and the Global Network. Strategic Assessment: The Internet / Charles Swett -- 3. Binary Schizophrenia. PsyOps / Winn Schwartau. An Information Warfare SIIOP / Richard Szafranski. Computer Decency Act / Howard Rheingold -- 4. On the Nature of Insidious. Hiding in Plain View / Winn Schwartau -- 5. Influenza, Malicious Software, and OOPS! The Plausibility of UNIX Virus Attacks / Peter Radatti -- 6. Sniffers and the Switch. Puzzle Palace Conducting Internet Surveillance / Wayne Madsen. Future Problems With Firewalls / Marcus Ranum. Countering Nonlethal Information Warfare / Henry M. Kluepfel. Telewar / Ronald S. Eward -- 7. The World of Mr. Van Eck -- 8. Cryptography. The Three Little Pigs / Charles L. Smith. The Bio-Cyber Future / Houston T. Hawkins. The True Story of PGP / Betty G. O'Hearn -- 9. Chipping: Silicon-Based Malicious Software. Denial of Service / Winn Schwartau -- 10. HERF Guns and EMP/T Bombs. More About HERF / Winn Schwartau. The E-Bomb / Carlo Copp -- 11. Hackers: The First Information Warriors in Cyberspace. Declaring War on France / Winn Schwartau. Social Engineering, Hackers of Planet Earth. Hackers as a National Resource / Matthew G. Devost -- 12. Who Are the Information Warriors? Cyber-Civil Disobedience / Winn Schwartau. Should Spies Be Cops? / Stewart A. Baker. Assassination Politics / Jim Bell -- 13. The Military Perspective. Iraqi Virus Hoax Update / Winn Schwartau. Sometimes the Dragon Wins / Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. Worldwide Threat Assessment / John M. Deutch. Nonlethal Weapons / John J. Sheehan. Ethical Conundra of Information Warfare / Winn Schwartau. The Fourth Force / Winn Schwartau -- 14. Class 1: Personal Information Warfare. No Privacy / Liz Weise. Personal Information Warfare / Mark Aldrich. Information Warfare: The Personal Front / Beth Givens. How to Beat Goliath / Simon Davies. Church and Statutes / Mike Godwin. Privacy in the Workplace / David F. Linowes -- 15. Class 2: Corporate Information Warfare. Corporate Civil Defense / Winn Schwartau. Diary of an Industrial Spy / Ira Winkler -- 16. Class 3: Global Information Warfare. Information Warfare / John Rothrock. Export Control / Winn Schwartau. Information Warfare Delphi / Roger D. Thrasher -- 17. Defense Before Defeat. Deterring Information Attacks / Martin C. Libicki. The Use of Cognitive Maps / Robert J. Garigue. From InfoWar to Knowledge Warfare / Phillipe Baumard. Protecting the NII / Daniel Ryan and Julie Ryan. America, The Last Empire / Bertil Hagmann -- 18. Outline of a National Information Policy: Defining America's Future. An Electronic Bill of Rights / Winn Schwartau. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace / John Perry Barlow -- 19. The Future of Information Warfare -- Afterword: Practical Proactive Security and Privacy -- Resources: Who Ya Gonna Call? -- Who's Who in Information Warfare As the National Information Infrastructure grows and evolves into everyman's electronic superhighway, are we opening the doors to an electronic cold war? Or are we on the edge of a brave new precipice overlooking the dawn of the information revolution? With over 125,000,000 computers inextricably tying our economy together through complex land and satellite-based communications systems, a major portion of our domestic 6 trillion dollar economy depends on their consistent and reliable operation. In a serious and inviting manner, Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway examines the awesome potential for industrial and international espionage. Through sabotage, theft, data manipulation, and other means, our economy could be crippled beyond anything in recent history. Currently within the banking community it is common practice for banks to use creative accounting to hide millions of dollars lost every year through Information Warfare. . In Information Warfare the "digital persona" plays the role of victim and perpetrator. The wrong hands could extract the most personal information about the "digital you," not the least of which could be medical, financial, business, legal, and criminal documentation. An individual could alter his/her own records to eradicate nefarious histories. Or an individual could alter anyone's electronic documentation for any reason. Information Warfare outlines almost every kind of informational disaster imaginable leaving the reader to think there may be no way out of the quagmire that is the new information age. However, author Winn Schwartau details current trends in Information Warfare and inspires the dialogue necessary to establish a National Information Policy, a constitution for Cyberspace and an Electronic Bill of Rights.