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Author Debriefing: Cyber War Will Not Take Place

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Is cyber war really coming? Renowned scholar Thomas Rid of the Department of War Studies at Kings College London argues that the focus on war distracts from the real challenge of cyberspace: non-violent confrontation that may rival or even replace violence in surprising ways. In this provocative talk, the author will trace the most significant hacks and attacks and explore some key questions: What are cyber weapons? How have they changed the meaning of violence? How likely and how dangerous is crowd-sourced subversive activity? Why has there never been a lethal cyber-attack against a country's critical infrastructure? How serious is the threat of cyber-espionage? And who is most vulnerable in the cyber realm? This event took place on September 10, 2013 .http://www.spymuseumstore.org/

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You're listening to the CyberWireriefing from the International Spy Museum.

0:20.0

I'm Mark Stout, the Museum's historian.

0:22.0

Here at the Museum we get the most interesting I'm Mark Stout, the museum's historian.

0:23.0

Here at the museum, we get the most interesting authors,

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including journalists, scholars, former spies, and intelligence officers

0:29.0

coming in to speak with our visitors and answer questions

0:31.0

about their latest works dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other names. with our

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visitors and answer questions about their latest works dealing with espionage intelligence and other national security issues.

0:36.0

Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefings.

0:42.0

Good middle of the day.

0:44.8

Welcome to the International Spy Museum.

0:46.8

I'm Amanda Olke, director of adult education.

0:50.1

Delighted to have you here today. We have a wonderful speaker, Dr Thomas Ridd, is visiting us from London,

0:57.5

so it's a real privilege to have him here. And I was telling him that our museum has been very committed to cyber espionage, cyber security issues for some time.

1:12.0

And our founder, Milton Waltz had had us working on and put into place a very interesting

1:19.0

gallery in our exhibition, Weapons of Mass Disruption disruption talking about infrastructure attacks.

1:25.2

I mean it was very prescient and a number of government officials from the city have visited.

1:30.5

It really was kind of ahead of its time very important people speaking James Woolsey, former DCI.

1:38.0

Really good show and I hope you have a chance to see it, but when I sent around the materials to prepare for this

1:45.4

fall schedule, Milt said to me, everything looks great but you know there's that there's

1:50.0

one program you have and I really the title is cyber war will not take place I'd really like to change that title

1:58.6

And I said we can't do that that's Dr. Rids the topic of his book because

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