New Publication: Dangerous Gaming: Cyber-Attacks, Air-Strikes and Twitter

Jantje Silomon

On May 5 2019, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an air-strike against a building in the Gaza Strip. Air-strikes, missiles, and escalated rhetoric are not unusual in the region. However, this event was exceptional, it was a kinetic, asymmetric attack against an alleged cyber-attack, and one that was worryingly justified by dehumanising its targets through gamified logic.

 

 

https://www.e-ir.info/2019/09/23/dangerous-gaming-cyber-attacks-air-strikes-and-twitter/