The offensive seems to have started, at least based on this account. There are others as well giving some foundation to the realities. The WikiLeaks and Julian Assange story has been a huge interest to me. Not as much what who said from whom to whom, as enlightening as some of it might all be, I'm interested in all the background stuff that makes these various initiatives functional and operative. I believe it helps me with seeing different perspectives.
The details provided here make one think of surgical strikes in the 'former' sense. Those of laser guided bombs that we minimizing collateral damage with surgical strikes. And the TV footage had us all in shock and awe with this technology.
So how about the ability to seek out individual targets, absolutely no collateral damage (though ultimately that is also debatable), and guaranteed success (though possibly limited by spread of time)? Seems like the cyberwar fits that description. Pick a company, pick its IT VP, pick a bank, pick a teacher. Pick absolutely anything. As surgically precise, as intently far reaching, as you wish. And if we have ever learned anything in the virus and spyware, it NEVER stops and only morphs much as Nature "adapts" to changing conditions.
So is this a tipping point? Watching and Learning.
WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers
As Julian Assange is held in solitary confinement at Wandsworth prison, the anonymous community of hacktivists takes to the cyber battlefields
He is one of the newest recruits to Operation Payback. In a London bedroom, the 24-year-old computer hacker is preparing his weaponry for this week's battles in an evolving cyberwar. He is a self-styled defender of free speech, his weapon a laptop and his enemy the US corporations responsible for attacking the website WikiLeaks.
He had seen the flyers that began springing up on the web in mid-September. In chatrooms, on discussion boards and inboxes from Manchester to New York to Sydney the grinning face of a Guy Fawkes mask had appeared with a call to arms. Across the world a battalion of hackers was being summoned.
"Greetings, fellow anons," it said beneath the headline Operation Payback. Alongside were a series of software programs dubbed "our weapons of choice" and a stark message: people needed to show their "hatred".
Like most international conflicts, last week's internet war began over a relatively modest squabble, escalating in days into a global fight.
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