CYBERWAR By Patricia Smith
The main idea of this article is that there is a current Cyber Warfare going on between the U.S and Israel working together going against Iran and China. Another part of the main idea is that because of this current Cyber War the U.S is in danger because unlike China, Iran is trying to do harm to the U.S they're even trying to build a nuke that we're trying to prevent.
Details or evidence from the article is that inside the article Smith states that the U.S are saying Iran can possibly hack into our systems and mess up trains with passengers or even more dangerous trains containing nuclear equipment or uranium. Another detail from the text is how in the beginning Smith also discusses how Iran hacked into Saudi Arabia's oil company Saudi Aramco the most important oil company in the world and the company alone is valued at an estimate of $7 trillion and the hackers deleted alot of important information making more than 30,000 computers useless. One more peice of evidence I'll use is that China is in this little CyberWar but not to cause damage but to steal information basically the Cyber Scout/Cyber Spy of the "war" and what they're doing is that they're trying to hack into the pentagon and steal secrets that only the U.S Government possibly know.
In my opinion this CyberWar is pointless but then again you aren't going to sit by and just let someone hack into your computer system and steal very important information and that's clearly what the U.S Government and its ally Israel is thinking aswell because even though they won't tell anybody publicly they're in this little warfare aswell sending viruses and hacks into the computers of hackers from Iran and China to keep them from getting into their computers. The U.S Government or Israel also has something called stuxnet which is a sophisticated computer worm only effective to people who have anything that has to do with nuclear plans, plants, information and that worm took a major toll on the Iranians setting back their ability to create nuclear weapons by several year according to the article.
One connection I can add to this article is from when I was younger and I was on my PC and I saw an interesting looking ad that had something to do with some type of game where they have the little controls like you can actually play the game on the ad. I clicked the ad and it took me to a website that definetly wasn't a gaming website, my PC defense system detected the website trying to do major damage to my PC and force closed to page before it could do anything. If it wasn't for my defense my PC would've probably been completely tooken over and I had school information on their that I needed that I could've lost but luckily I didn't and to this day I never even look at ads instead I close them right away if optional if not I just don't look at them.
This article has helped me to think more deeply of the topic because honestly I knew there was hacking going on but I never knew it was this serious until now. I didn't know people were trying to hack the U.S Goverment every day because I thought hacking was a minor thing that computer techies or "nerds" did in their spare time to get those extra points in that game or something of the sort.
This article did make me wonder about something. My wonder is, If Iran and China are succesful in hacking the U.S and Israel what kind of damage will Iran do and what kind of stuff will China do with the information they obtain?
In my opinion this CyberWar is pointless but then again you aren't going to sit by and just let someone hack into your computer system and steal very important information and that's clearly what the U.S Government and its ally Israel is thinking aswell because even though they won't tell anybody publicly they're in this little warfare aswell sending viruses and hacks into the computers of hackers from Iran and China to keep them from getting into their computers. The U.S Government or Israel also has something called stuxnet which is a sophisticated computer worm only effective to people who have anything that has to do with nuclear plans, plants, information and that worm took a major toll on the Iranians setting back their ability to create nuclear weapons by several year according to the article.
One connection I can add to this article is from when I was younger and I was on my PC and I saw an interesting looking ad that had something to do with some type of game where they have the little controls like you can actually play the game on the ad. I clicked the ad and it took me to a website that definetly wasn't a gaming website, my PC defense system detected the website trying to do major damage to my PC and force closed to page before it could do anything. If it wasn't for my defense my PC would've probably been completely tooken over and I had school information on their that I needed that I could've lost but luckily I didn't and to this day I never even look at ads instead I close them right away if optional if not I just don't look at them.
This article has helped me to think more deeply of the topic because honestly I knew there was hacking going on but I never knew it was this serious until now. I didn't know people were trying to hack the U.S Goverment every day because I thought hacking was a minor thing that computer techies or "nerds" did in their spare time to get those extra points in that game or something of the sort.
This article did make me wonder about something. My wonder is, If Iran and China are succesful in hacking the U.S and Israel what kind of damage will Iran do and what kind of stuff will China do with the information they obtain?
