War evolves . Will the conflicts of the future be like bloodless chess games handled from a keyboard? Will the battles wage drones and remotely operated robots? Some of this is glimpsed with the phenomenon of the cyber guerrilla, which uses the internet as a weapon. This has been demonstrated with the attack and threats from North Korean hackers to the Sony company, which has finally given in and canceled the premiere of its film The Interview .
O ur civilization is so dependent on technology and the Internet that online communications are strategic points that cyber guerrillas hit, disabling servers and websites, spreading computer viruses … Bombing is no longer enough; the enemy’s telecommunications must be interfered with.
Thus, at the beginning of its dispute with Russia, Ukraine denounced an attack by this country on its telecommunications system that disabled the mobile phones of its parliamentarians. And the Syrian Electronic Army is a group of hackers pro-Syrian President Bashar al-Asad that sabotages opponents and critics of the regime online.
Its greatest success was the hack of the Twitter account of the Associated Press news agency, which they used to tweet the news of an attack on the White House that would have injured Barack Obama. In two minutes – which took to deny the news – Wall Street lost 136,000 million dollars , although they later recovered.
The United States views the cyber attack as a greater threat than terrorism. Hence, the Pentagon is forming a command of 30,000 cybernetic soldiers capable of facing attacks on the Web. Many experts believe that in the event of a conflict between China and the US, the battle for control of the Web could decide who is the winner.
