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In today’s post
I will attempt to link my CAJ topic, cyberwar, to the CAJ topic of another
student, namely robotics. I followed Bianca’s blog for quite a while and in one
of her posts she wrote about drones and military robotics in general. I think
that this topic can be linked quite well to cyberwar.
In the last
few years an arms race has been going on, specializing in the creation of
unmanned military equipment. In 2008, for example, about 12,000 ground robots
were used in war. Congress has decided that by 2015, one third of all military
ground vehicles are to be unmanned. Just as the with ground robots, Arial drone
technology is advancing rapidly.
As I
already mentioned in my last blog post, there has been a hype going in about
cyberwar, even though the instances of cyberwar that have happened up to now
point more to espionage and sabotage than to a real act of war. This would,
however, change if these automated war machines were to be hacked and if a
virus would suddenly change their intended target.
There have
already been situations when military robots have acted erratic and acted upon
by external sources such as electronic interferences. This has not yet posed a
problem, but if this happened to armed robots, the consequences could be
serious. An example for these disturbances are electronic jammers, often used
in US vehicles to prevent improvised explosive device (IED attacks) can
cause drones flying overhead to crash.
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Already now
many military, as well as civilian, computer systems are under constant
attacks, so we can imagine that it is only a matter of time until automated
military systems will be targeted as well. Up to know, luckily, no instances of
automated systems being affected by viruses or attacked by hackers have been
reported. If somebody would, however, succeed in injecting a code into these
systems, allowing them to remote control military drones, a real cyberwar might
ine day become reality.
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