After the Cease-Fire in Gaza, Will the Cyberwar Continue? -- Vivienne Walt, Time
You didn’t need to be a Middle East specialist to understand that something was seriously off-kilter early on Wednesday when Israel’s Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom displayed a “Free Palestine” photo on his Facebook page and wrote on his Twitter feed, “FREE PALESTINE! END THE OCCUPATION!” No fan of Hamas, Shalom was the latest target in a hacking campaign that has raged through eight days of actual, lethal warfare in Gaza. Shortly after the postings on Shalom’s sites, the tech website Gizmodo announced that Anonymous, the hacking activist group, had finally “swallowed a big fish,” having threatened days earlier to turn the Gaza conflict “into a cyberwar.” “Pretty embarrassing for a high-ranking official!” Gizmodo writer Casey Chan wrote.
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My Comment: It is not only an intensification of the cyber war .... it is also an intensification of the information/propaganda/media war .... reaching one's supporters as well as communicating to a greater worldwide audience. Will there be a let-up in this conflict .... I sincerely doubt it.
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