The Origins of Cyber Warfare: How the Internet Became Weaponized
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2024

This thesis introduces “cyberfarming,” a new framework for understanding how states weaponize cyberspace through the strategic deployment of technologies within critical infrastructure sectors. While the majority of research on cyberspace addresses resilience, cyber power indices, and incidents of espionage and sabotage, it often overlooks the systematic processes behind cyber weaponization. This study addresses this gap by presenting cyberfarming as a deliberate, state-led strategy to embed tec