Information Warfare
As we entered the third wave, we traded in our pens and notebooks, for keyboards and CPU's. A simple wire connected from a phoneline to a modem to your CPU, brings the whole world into your hands. And you into the worlds hand as well. Political realism is defined as doing what is necessary for survival. One must depend on themselves, because no one else will look out for them. Information Warfare has become a massly used tactic by individuals as well as companies looking out for their own survival, in a world of commerce, and politics. Information Warfare is an innovative and dangerous new way to harm your opponents. When one thinks of warfare the mind is usually bombarded by thoughts of M16's, grenades, and hand to hand combat. In this new era of technology that we are living in warfare has come to mean so much more. Information warfare is the use of any type of information used to injure your opponent's progress and further your own. The power of Information Warfare spans a broad scope of uses, from the gathering information about companies, to personal blackmail. It's used not only by individuals against other persons, but companies and even the nation as well. As the third wave, defined by Tofflers, becomes more
Each classification of Information Warfare has its' own issues that are relevant to its use. Class one is predominantly involved with personal privacy and protection from outsiders. With the introduction of the Internet into our lives, electronic privacy as we know it has come to a halt. Almost all our information is stored on some sort of computer, whether it be at DMV, our Insurance company, state and federal government, video rentals, and even the EZ-Pass. While in the reality everything may indeed be objective, things in cyberspace are subjective. The first amendment of the United States Constitution explicitly states that the American people are entitled to free speech. The people's thoughts and writings should be free from censorship, and they have the right to say and feel what they want. The safety of the people relies on their undeniable freedoms, listed in the amendments. By taking one of these away, or by redefining their meaning to constrict the people's liberty, we are only lessening the value of our great nation. Type two is more on a corporate level bringing individuals together in mass and attacking their businesses. Businesses today are making more money than ever, producing more and more products. With this comes the increased danger in releasing information regarding the companies assets and progress. The school system can also keep the children in their school, from accessing undesirable cites on the world wide web. The Queensland school system has been connected to the Internet, providing the children with a whole new world of opportunities. The parents however are worried about the children being able to visit such cites that would have pornography, and/or other material unsuitable for youngsters. The school has installed a program so that if the kids were to access prohibited cites an automatic alarm would notify Education Queensland's network administrators. By taking control of the cites that the children can visit, the school system is helping to
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Approximate Word count = 1357
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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