Deployed, they could disrupt a variety of enemy systems, from missile targeting and launch electronics, to command-and-control systems.
It also suggests that the United States is vulnerable to cyberattacks when it seeks to disable enemy systems.
Some cyber attacks use malware (malicious software) to gain access to enemy systems in order to either steal sensitive information or gain control of them.
The CIA and NSA have launched aggressive new efforts to hack into foreign computer networks to steal information or sabotage enemy systems, embracing what the budget refers to as "offensive cyber operations," writes The Post.
The security-focused SANS Institute, an independent organization, plans to organize what may be the most controversial of the three contests: the Network Attack Competition, which challenges students to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software, compromise enemy systems and steal data.
History suggests that such messaging and gestures cause a great deal of cognitive and emotional dissonance to violent enemy systems and discourages violent responses.
The true answer to the mysteries of enemy systems, of endless cycles of curses and blessings and reversals, and curses again, is something that is at once utterly nonviolent, utterly compassionate, and utterly beyond war.
The PLA, during a conflict, according to the DoD report, will have its IO entities execute "[t]heir primary tasks... to protect the PLA's campaign information systems, collect intelligence from enemy information systems, destroy enemy information systems, and weaken the enemy's ability to acquire, transmit, process, and use information during war".
Kim senior apparently feared the zone was a Trojan horse, daily exposing 55,000 of his subjects to the palpable superiority of the enemy's system.
