The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
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The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
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Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#2One of the Discworld novels uses 'hacking' of multi-shutter semaphore towers as a plot point, by way of a gibberish sequence that can physically destroy the poorly engineered towers by slamming the shutters around at a resonant frequency (book) or cause the controls to physically seize up in a jammed position (film).
Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#3I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to steal codes be a cyber attack?
Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#4I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to steal codes be a cyber attack?
The semaphore ploy strikes me as much more rooted in information, thus the description “cyber”. Stealing code is just theft, since the object of theft doesn't generally qualify the act (though it does in some cases).
Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#5I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to steal codes be a cyber attack?
It is cyber in the sense of cybernetics ("the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine")
Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#6A better title would be the first hack of a financial market.
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#7An inside job to borrow some network resources does not qualify as an attack on a network.
This is like using your neighbor's Wi-Fi without permission being a "cyber attack".
Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#8I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to steal codes be a cyber attack?
Does the Trojan Horse ring a bell?
Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#9I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to steal codes be a cyber attack?
It is cyber in the sense of cybernetics ("the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine")
Let's see:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/cybernetic#etymonline_v_3657...
"kybernetikos": Greek for "good at steering".
Thus military attack involving an excellent steering maneuver is cyber attack.
Re: The French semaphore system hack of 200 years ago
#10An inside job to borrow some network resources does not qualify as an attack on a network. This is like using your neighbor's Wi-Fi without permission being a "cyber attack".
It is a government owned network that only allowed government traffic. It’s more like borrowing Siprnet...