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This weekend, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an airstrike at Hamas's Cyber HQ in an apparently first of its kind real-time physical response by a nation state targeting the source of a cyber attack (as far as we know).
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in response to an alleged cyber attack. A strike launched by Israeli forces targeted a building in the Gaza Strip that was hosting Hamas cyber army.
The IDF adopted a hybrid approach, it first stopped the cyber attack carried out by Hamas, then once it [had] localized the source of the offensive launched an airstrike.
This is simultaneously an evolution in hybrid-warfare and a return to levels of physical violence in the conflict between Hamas and Israel that hasn't been seen for five years.
The United States has reserved the right to retaliate similarly against cyber attacks since 2011, but has not done so.
The US had considered kinetic responses to a cyber attack:
State-backed hacking and physical warfare have been on a slow but steady path toward convergence for about two decades, and both information security and warfare researchers say that it was only a matter of time before a nation launched a kinetic attack against enemy hackers. "When I joined the very first Cyber Command in April 1999, we were talking about that as a serious thing in case it was needed," says Jason Healey, a former staffer in the George W. Bush White House and current cyberconflict researcher at Columbia University. "I wouldn't say we necessarily had plans for it, but we were thinking it through."
That's an expensive wrench
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday May 08 2019, @07:51PM
I don't hate the Jews, but you're being remarkably simplistic. The creation of Israel on top of Palestine was by no means as civil, correct, or ordered as you think. Jewish terrorists are a real thing that existed before the creation of Israel.
Jews WERE the invaders here. If it was Palestinian land before the creation of Israel, and the Palestinians were living there with their own society and autonomy, please explain the moral and ethical correctness of non-citizens thousands of miles away taking their land and autonomy from them? Before that, and before the terrorism, the Palestinians were hosting Jewish refugees from in an unarguably horrific situation in Europe. Yes, Jews just like the Palestinians have ancient and religious claims to the land. How do you determine again which group has more rights?
All I know is that Palestinian sovereignty was wholly disrespected in the formation of Israel. Once it became clear what the Palestinians lost, it started a war, which shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone. Since one side was Muslim, that made attacking that side extremely problematic because then ALL Muslims everywhere were obligated to fight in a holy war. Greatly exacerbating the situation was the presence of holy sites to both peoples, namely Jerusalem. Neither people's will accept the loss of this city, seemingly under any conditions.
Personally, both sides are disreputable to me. I've always thought the Palestinians needed to look at Ghandi and how his peaceful movement gave India back its sovereignty and autonomy from the British. Alas, instead of that we've now been trained to hate the Muslims, and they've never once stopped the holy war against the invaders in the last ~70 years now. The Jews are not much better for wholly failing to acknowledge what they did to the Palestinians, and acting like they own the place. Which is factually in dispute. As a thought experiment, how would Americans react if Nebraska was signed away to Syrian refugees by a "stroke of a pen in the UN"?
It would do the world some good to take off the blinders and acknowledge what really happened to both peoples, and try and figure out a way to move forward.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.