The concept of suicide hackers is the same as suicide bombers.
The subject was discussed on some of the security mailing list and also within magazine such as ZDNet, see an extract below :
Colonel Paul Straughair, the director of network centric warfare at the Australian Army and part of the Australian Department of
Defence, said he saw "no logical reason" why suicide hackers would not strike in the future.
"We see suicide bombers that are prepared to die for their cause. I don't think it is too far before we start to see people who are quite prepared to conduct cyber-terrorism.
"While the risk will be high that they will be caught, they will accept that as a fact of life for 'the cause' and be prepared to go to prison for 30 years because they stopped a banking system working or a power grid taken down or took down the air traffic control system of a country for a period of time," Straughair told ZDNet Australia.
The suicide hacker scenario was possible but unlikely, according to Jo Stewart-Rattray, director of information security at Vectra, who said she found it hard to believe that someone would be willing to spend 30 years in prison for "a cause".
The subject was discussed on some of the security mailing list and also within magazine such as ZDNet, see an extract below :
Colonel Paul Straughair, the director of network centric warfare at the Australian Army and part of the Australian Department of
Defence, said he saw "no logical reason" why suicide hackers would not strike in the future.
"We see suicide bombers that are prepared to die for their cause. I don't think it is too far before we start to see people who are quite prepared to conduct cyber-terrorism.
"While the risk will be high that they will be caught, they will accept that as a fact of life for 'the cause' and be prepared to go to prison for 30 years because they stopped a banking system working or a power grid taken down or took down the air traffic control system of a country for a period of time," Straughair told ZDNet Australia.
The suicide hacker scenario was possible but unlikely, according to Jo Stewart-Rattray, director of information security at Vectra, who said she found it hard to believe that someone would be willing to spend 30 years in prison for "a cause".
