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I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to st
by paxy 7y ago
I'm pretty sure you can go back a lot further if you keep redefining the meaning of the word. Would some Roman general sending a spy into an opposing camp to steal codes be a cyber attack?
- tzar 7y agoThe semaphore ploy strikes me as much more rooted in information, thus the description “cyber”. Stealing code is just theft, since the object of theft doesn't generally qualify the act (though it does in some cases).
- lainga 7y agoIt is cyber in the sense of cybernetics ("the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine")
- kazinator 7y agoLet's see: https://www.etymonline.com/word/cybernetic#etymonline_v_36576 https://www.etymonline.com/word/cybernetic#etymonline_v_3657... "kybernetikos": Greek for "good at steering". Thus military attack involving an excellent steering maneuver is cyber attack.
- Udik 7y agoNot too sure about the -tikos thing and the "good at" part, google (and the Oxford dictionary) gives etymology from kubernetes, pilot. Cybernetics is then, I guess, the science of (automatic) control, so nothing to do with "steering".
- kazinator 7y agoDoes the Trojan Horse ring a bell?