Truth is the first casualty of cyberwar.
Truth is the first casualty of cyberwar by George Smith, Wall Street Journal, September 8, 1998. Reprinted with permission of The Wall Street Journal c 1998. Inc. All rights reserved. Concern is growing in many quarters that society's reliance on computers has made it extremely vulnerable to attack via keyboard. At the Pentagon, military theorists ponder how to defend America against hackers in the employ of a foreign power who might use the Internet to turn off the electricity, paralyze the armed forces, cause corporations to crumble and write dirty words on your Web site.