It is recognized that social networks provide access in a few clicks to many testimonials and allow you to follow the development of events practically in real time. But They have also shown their ability greatly to relay Amount of wrong information.
This does not include hackers: Russian cyberattacks targeted several Ukrainian government websites on January 14, a month before the war began, shutting down nearly half of the sites, and massively destroying data.
Even the Quebec government felt the need to tighten the security of its computers, in the face of threats deemed dangerous from Moscow.
This week, Isabelle Bourgogne talks about the digital age war with:
- Simon TebowAnd the Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal.
- Paul Laurierpresident vegeticA company that specializes in cyber investigation. In the past he has worked for the Sûreté du Québec as well as within an integrated team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), against financial crime, terrorism and its financing.
Digital warfare, far from the battlefield but closer to us, aims to hide, destabilize and also rally new supporters, in order to support one side or the other. Here, too, there are winners and losers. How do we assess the number of victims of this digital battle?
World War II already had its own propaganda cinema. In the case of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, this “information war” began in 2014 with the war in the Crimea. What has changed with the new technologies?
What are the three main methods used? Could this affect us in Quebec? We must not be naive: these methods are also used in democratic countries to undermine the opponent’s action. Moreover, there are also Internet users – anonymous, IT military, Belarusian cyber-supporters … – who have been trying to respond since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine: what exactly are the “citizens” movements doing?
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