Perfidy in Cyberspace: The Requirement for Human Confidence
Sean K. Price[*] [This article is available in PDF at this link] Introduction The United States is under attack. In the months leading up to hostilities, the enemy’s intelligence agencies have identified key U.S. and allied military officials who use cloud-connected artificial pacemakers[1] or implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD).[2] Immediately preceding offensive operations in the physical domains, the adversary’s cyber force pushes malware to those officials’ pacemakers, which accept it as authentic firmware updates produced by a civilian manufacturer. When the attack begins, the adversary instructs the now-infected pacemakers to malfunction.[3] The most fortunate targets require hospitalization to deactivate their pacemakers. […]
