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CYBERWAR: A🧵The need to precisely assess the current state on a continuum of conflict (peace, competition, contest, conflict, & war) is essential for strategy development, clarifying authority & certain response justifications (like use of force & wartime funding provisions) 1/4
There are established frameworks that permit objective ascription of war & differentiate types of aggression. Clausewitz, Boulding, Perkins or the Geneva Conventions are all classic frameworks for delineating war from terrorism, armed conflict or other type of belligerence 🧵2/4
🇷🇺 & 🇺🇦 are at war. They are at war in all 5 warfighting domains because that’s how 21st-century war works. Bombastic declarations of #cyberwar due to malware discovery are especially offensive & ill-informed because malware discovery is a daily event in both war & peacetime🧵3/4
GAO has a report out looking at #US election security ahead of 2020 elections : gao.gov/products/gao-2… "DHS plans are urgently needed to address identified challenges before the 2020 elections." A few takeaways... #USelections #CyberConflict #Risks (1/5) 
2/5 GAO overview - #US #elections: Examples of physical & #Cyber threats to the election infrastructure & assets by stage of the election process...#Risks #CyberSecurity #Democracy
3/5 Ahead of a busy and crucial 2020 #US election cycle it appears there are still plenty of actual work to be done to secure the integrity of the election system according to the GAO investigation...#CyberSecurity #InformationWarfare #Risks
Playing with #DigitalFire:
1/7: In martial arts, one of the best moves is to take an attacker's weapon and turn it back on them. In 2016, that's just what #Beijing did – in #cyberspace:
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1/7: In martial arts, one of the best moves is to take an attacker's weapon and turn it back on them. In 2016, that's just what #Beijing did – in #cyberspace:
nyti.ms/2Ylm3E3
2/7: After #American operatives used a particular bit of code to attack #Chinese computer systems, Chinese hackers took it, repurposed it, and used it to attack a bunch of US allies.
3/7: The Chinese simply seem to have spotted a #US #cyberintrusion and snatched the code, often developed at huge expense to #American taxpayers.
