In the 1983 movie War Games, the leading character is a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict the possible outcomes of nuclear war, and then proceeds to start his favourite game: Global Thermonuclear War. What we know, but the computer geek does not, is that the US military,...
The issue of international cyber attacks has given rise to discussions within and between many academic disciplines,[1] has been discussed within international fora,[2] and is never far away from the headlines of the global media.[3] There are many explanatory reasons for this interest; the fact that such attacks involve computers which, today, we all use...