Cyberattacks and the current world war

                         Cyberattacks and the current world war 

 By Rodolfo Bueno: US media report that the US plans to carry out a series of cyberattacks against Russian networks.

 Based on statements by unidentified US officials, The New York Times reported that the US plans to carry out a series of cyberattacks against Russian networks. This set of clandestine actions would be the response to the cyberattack recently targeted by numerous government institutions and whose authorship, without evidence, is attributed to Russian hackers. NASA, the Pentagon and the Department of Justice are among the victims of what they call the most extensive and sophisticated attack the world has ever seen. These unknown officials argue that the proliferation of cyberattacks by rivals constitutes a challenge for the Biden administration, which now has plans to replicate with a series of covert actions across all of Russia's networks, seeking to deter Russian intrusions into corporate systems. Americans and government. These are the most effective measures to give an adequate response to Russia, in terms of clarifying what the US believes is in and out of bounds and what it is prepared to do in response. These replication cyberattacks, intended to be understood by President Putin, his intelligence services and the Russian military, but not by the rest of the population, will be combined with more economic sanctions against Moscow.

 In addition, President Biden would sign an order to prevent future hacks and better protect US state networks. They also consider what to do against China, the other great opponent, which they accuse of having attacked, in early March 2021, 30,000 computers of US corporations and the government, which left 60,000 cyber victims, for which they took advantage of the vulnerability of a Microsoft email program.

 These accusations create a not very credible mess, because any wrong that China and Russia are accused of will be tarnished in advance by the fact that the US has already committed such crimes before. In 2016, then-Vice President Biden, on behalf of the Obama administration, announced that secret operations were being prepared against Russia, despite the fact that a secret operation is not communicated to anyone, so it is clear that these statements are directed to the naive public.

 Secret were, for example, the facilities that were used to illegally eavesdrop on other governments, including the closest allies of the United States, a country that is a true espionage empire and uses its technological advances to even violate the security of public institutions or private anywhere on the planet. When Chancellor Merkel learned that all of her phone calls had been interfered with, she refused to make claims "so as not to damage her relationships with American friends," thereby demonstrating her vassal behavior. . The matter is turning ant-colored as the reports of cyberattacks against SolarWinds, which are attributed without evidence to Russia, and Microsoft, which also accuses China without evidence, are unfounded because they are based on assumptions "with a high probability if true ”, made by the US intelligence services, which on numerous previous occasions were wrong, to put it in good terms; In short, it is a new propaganda war.

 According to former President Trump, "such hacking is greater in the fake news media" and hinted that SolarWinds, a company that has several lawsuits for its security failures and its stock market crash, participated in the electoral fraud of the presidential election. On the other hand, Chen Shasha, of the Global Times newspaper, assures that cybersecurity is the new weapon of the US against China and Russia; quotes Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs of the Renmin University of China: "The US plays the cyber attack card to move the ideological fight to cybersecurity and seeks to monopolize the world, because Russia and China, with their high technological development, they have broken the hegemony of the US in the cyber world, and now they want to exclude them from competition in cyberspace and in finance, in order to control their own allies and maintain world hegemony ”.

On the other hand, the military doctrine of the US, China and Russia considers the cyberattack on their state institutions as a cause of war, so in this matter you must walk with lead if you do not want to incur a provocation that leads to a new world war, not desired by any ruler or by the population of the planet. The ideal and desirable thing would be to create control and cybersecurity mechanisms between these three powers, which eliminate any possibility of a war between them, and not promote provocations without causes, as could happen if the statements of The New York Times are true. Furthermore, the US should realize that it does not have the capacity to simultaneously wage war against China and Russia. 

 Dmitri Peskov, President Putin's spokesman, is right when he declares: “This is alarming information, since a fairly reliable US media not only admits, but also announces the feasibility of such cyberattacks. Of course, the fact that The New York Times admits the possibility that the US may be involved in this cybercrime is cause for our extreme concern. Russia has never had or has any connection with any manifestation of such cybercrimes or cyberterrorism ”. 

 He knows what he is talking about, he understands that in this world there are plenty of crazy people capable of listening to the call of President Biden's entourage to expand the group of nations willing to fight against Russia, in a wide spectrum of human activities: economic, political, military, cybernetic. , since he thinks that it is a serious mistake not to properly calibrate Putin's Russia, which represents a danger to the freedom and independent existence of the world, and when these very fools hear President Biden himself declare: "America is back", they believe that Russia and China have crossed the top point, defined by them, and that the time has come to start clandestine retaliation cyberattacks against those countries, without weighing how dangerous it is to take that step. It is recalled that as of 2018, the US Cyber ​​Command is authorized to direct battles close to war in cyberspace, without explicit presidential authorization. Perhaps these fools were referred to by The New York Times. 

 The reality is that cyberattacks against Russian institutions are constantly growing, both in quantity and intensity, their security organs do not sleep or have never slept and since 2013, when the State System of Detection, Warning and Warning was created by presidential order. Liquidation of Cyberattacks, have the capacity to control and liquidate this type of aggression. Establishing the origin of cyberattacks is quite complicated and expensive, although it is feasible to do. But thanks to the warning made by The New York Times, the task is simplified and the work is facilitated to carry out an adequate and devastating counterattack, since warned war does not kill people. This should serve as a warning to any hot head. Therefore, it is desirable that before embarking on a cyber battle against Russia and China, the US security organs first determine exactly where and from whom the cyberattack came, before initiating battles close to war in cyberspace, which could lead to an apocalyptic end of the world. 

And the dangerous thing is that those audacious people, referred to by The New York Times, persuaded by the idea of ​​American exclusivity and imbued by the absurdity of believing themselves superior, start the fight against the windmills that threaten the national security of The United States, a concept that has always been abused, especially now recently, when with their practices of unfair competition they have broken the laws of the market economy, which they previously promoted with hypocrisy, and plunge the world to the bottom of the abyss, in which edge is currently. 

Since it is smart to learn from your own mistakes, and regarding Russia the United States Security organs, which are not stupid, have made mistakes many times, it is time that they respect Russia and do not repeat mistakes of the past.