Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It

by Richard A. Clarke

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what level of botnet activity from South Korea would be sufficient to jam the fiber-optic cables and routers leading out of the country. If North Korean agents in South Korea could flood the connection, they could effectively cut the country off from any Internet connection to the rest of the world. That would be valuable for the North to do in a crisis, because the U.S. employs those connections to coordinate the logistics of any U.S. military reinforcements.

obtained access to the system through malicious code implanted in the computer of a South Korean army officer.

most future kinetic wars will be accompanied by cyber war,