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If you want peace ... or cyber illusions! Fighting against

The year 2010 is coming to an end and without wishing to compete in the category of sacrosanct balances at year-end, one thing that seems certain: this year was the year Stuxnet. The first consequence is that there are therefore a "before" and there will be an "after."

Beyond the buzz but also excellent reviews published here and there, one can also think that 2010 will mark the electro-techno-sphere (almost direct homage to Charles Bwele while wreathed of its recent price ) through a pattern of "mainstream" of the prefix "cyber" to which is attached a cohort of the scariest words to each other: insecurity, crime, attack (s ) and especially war.

Cyberwar or the emergence of fascinating concepts that do not displease the colossal-looking authors are Philip K. Dick, Asimov and Frank Herbert. For the latter, I would sometimes think that these authors have shown prescience ! Apart from the Iran-Iraq conflict was the last conventional conflict, long and solid between two States, the war has changed the face of these two (or three) decades, dominated by so-called asymmetrical conflicts (the last Iraq war and Afghanistan are now in a "good" example) but mostly low intensity.

Wish all staff and oh so utopian, I'm interested in the military, its personnel and its equipment since my childhood, I want more of a pacified humanity, much more adult and not take their destiny in hand to share the wealth equitably to build the great work that is sorely needed: every effort to ensure the safety of future generations (and distant) by acquiring sufficient means to leave our cradle and be able to live elsewhere than on Earth.

However and unfortunately, it is feared that the next 20 years are riddled with conflict that they will not low intensities. Brutal and short, they could be caused by the strategic aims of access and protection of critical resources (fossil, rare metals, water, arable land) and would use and the rise of paperless vectors (cyber, virtual , informational computer ... therefore more prosaically) with consequences that they will be very concrete and physical (control systems for SCADA and DCS , neutralization computer networks and communications, mass misinformation and distributed attacks, but completely decentralized).

This world is scary and seems to describe what Tom Clancy shows for years through his series Net Force? None of this would be that the literature on the cheap so that peacocks-bloggers including myself (in this case) and journalists make the best wheel? No, dear reader, it is time to wake up, it's time to wake up: this is for tomorrow, in a few hours.

The Apocalypse still belongs to the Bible's revelation but she has already begun!

What do we blame does staffs (and their ... political and military leaders, especially the latter for that matter) to have been improvident, incompetent and have thought sheltered behind some unknown imaginary Maginot Line?! These are not some exercises or cyber cyber stress (!) Between allies who will change things even if they were especially designed to reassure the population. Who will still be surprised when you learn the collapse of a state, this was it "modest" and developing (or downgrade!), While his infantry, his armor, helicopters or his hunters have not left their barracks and warehouses for lack of a complete paralysis of information systems or remote neutralization of some or most of the weapons systems? What will become of a nation with expensive toys and high technology if they actually become as useful as ... toys?

If you want peace ...