Wired briefly sketches the new netwar weapons coded to counterattack MP3 file swappers: "Monsters of Rock". References codenames "Antinode", "Fester", "Freeze", "Shame", "Silence", "Suck" and "Tattle". Some of these tools mimic the tactics of Internet worms and viruses and bandwidth-draining DNS attacks. Others use "disinformation" tactics to create and direct MP3-seeking traffic to fake supernodes. Reminiscent of international netwar scenarios. Is all fair in love and war? (...More...)
RAND Corporation:
* The Advent of Netwar
* Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
Information Warfare, Cyberwar - Future of Internet & Computer Warfare (Infosyssec, current)
Bracing for guerrilla warfare in cyberspace (CNN, 1999)
The Great Cyberwar of 2002 (Wired, 1998) Fiction by John Arquilla, Pentagon advisor and professor of information warfare at Naval Postgraduate School.
CYBERWAR IS COMING! (1993) Introduction of "cyberwar" and "netwar" by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt of RAND
DougSimpson.com/blog