Paul Virilio Quotes

When it comes to the cyberwarfare piece, we're going to have to deal with it.

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.

In America, we're in the middle of a cyberwar with Russia.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.

The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

The next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyberattack.

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.

I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.

In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate.

In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.

The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.

All of our intelligence agencies, our Department of Defense, are all working to meet this threat. But it's a fast moving world; it's a place where offense is easier than defense, and keeping up with the next innovation in cyber-warfare is an enormous challenge.

Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.

While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars... It's the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Since most cyberwar is conducted covertly, governments avoid any public acknowledgment of their own abilities and shy away from engaging in any sort of 'cyber diplomacy.' Statecraft conducted in secret fails to create public norms for deterrence.