Security and Privacy in a Networked World/Cyberwars

The Online Battlefield

Using IT in military context today involves various applications, for example

• cryptography
• communication interception (cyberespionage)
• communication disruption (cyberattacks on infrastructure using e.g. DDOS)
• propaganda and information warfare
• ...

Looking back

While military cryptography can be traced back to the antiquity (e.g. scytale, the connection with IT was probably first made with Enigma.

Additional reading and links

• BACARD, Andre. Remailer FAQ. http://www.andrebacard.com/remail.html
• BIDDLE, Peter, ENGLAND, Paul, PEINADO, Marcus, WILLMAN, Bryan. The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution. http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf
• DAVIES, Roger. What is Dark Internet, How to Access Onion Domains and Configure Hosting for the Dark Web http://www.rogerdavies.com/2011/06/dark-internet/
• CAMPBELL, Duncan. Inside Echelon. http://echelononline.free.fr/documents/dc/inside_echelon.htm
• DUNHAM, Roger C. Spy Sub: Top-Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific.
• HAGER, Nicky. The Secret Power. http://www.nickyhager.info/secret-power-new-zealands-role-in-the-international-spy-network/
• HELMERS, Sabine. A Brief History of anon.penet.fi - The Legendary Anonymous Remailer http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/sep/helmers.html
• RIJMENANTS, Dirk. Dirk's Weblog: Cipher Machines & Cryptology / Intelligence / Security. http://rijmenants.blogspot.com/
• SONTAG, Sherry, DREW, Christopher. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage.
• WALTON, Greg. China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/582542/posts
• The Enigma and the Bombe. http://www.ellsbury.com/enigmabombe.htm
• The Great Firewall of China. http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
• Invisible or Deep Web: What it is, how to find it, and its inherent ambiguity. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
• The Freenet Project Wiki. https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Main_Page
• The Tor Project. https://www.torproject.org/
• The Invisible Internet Project. http://geti2p.net/en/
• The Hidden Wiki. https://zqktlwi4fecvo6ri.onion.to/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Also in Estonian:

• MÄGI, Harri, VITSUT, Lauri. Infosõda: visioonid ja tegelikkus. Eesti Ekspressi kirjastus 2008.