Cyber ​​attack virtual victory defeats military reality on screen

Exactly two months ago, the Russian electronic warfare system was praised, which was able to limit the spread of terrorist elements in Kazakhstan, by jamming their communications and then directing successful strikes against them, but now the country that has long been known for the strength of its devices in relation to In this field, a target of a cyber war that has already succeeded in achieving some of its goals by blocking many of its important platforms, as the Anonymous hackers claimed responsibility for the attack on Russian media sites, as the virtual debate goes hand in hand with the war on the ground between Russia and Ukraine, while the latter was Moscow was accused of launching a cyber war against it, which disrupted the sites of important ministries and affected the movements of the Ukrainian army. Manipulating the opponent through the language of code, it seems, has become a necessity for victory, not just military equipment, a message that found its way on screens decades ago, and is now being realized as a reality as a parallel war without the sounds of bullets.

Cinema's obsession with piracy

Since the 1980s, film and series makers have been preoccupied with presenting stories about the world of piracy, and although it was very mysterious in that era and presented with excessive naivety at times, it was a forward-looking alert to what has become a necessity today for major entities, including the movie Tron 1982 Although the information provided about piracy operations at the time was scientifically sound to a large extent, it appeared on the screen in a primitive way, and the work dealt with a strong struggle between humans and electronic devices in the framework of science fiction, and due to its sharp difference from what prevailed at the time, it is considered a milestone in this. The genre of the business, as it was reintroduced with a different cast and more advanced technology in 2010 and titled TRON: Legacy, directed by Joseph Kosinski.

It was not very different from the movie Wargames in 1983, as it revolved around a number of young hackers who penetrate army sites and discover how to manage advanced weapons that threaten a new world war, and the movie focused on the military aspect of using the Internet.

This aspect was achieved years after the film, after the comprehensive cyber defense agreement signed by the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "NATO". The alliance charter includes this point clearly, and the word is mentioned dozens of times in the statements of NATO summits, and the alliance countries threaten to activate the agreement in the event of any major cyber attack targeting them. As it was accused of targeting the infrastructure in Ukraine in 2015, which resulted in the cutting off of electricity for more than 200,000 people through cyber attacks, and the name of Russia was also the subject of controversy during the 2017 US elections, as its intelligence was accused of involvement in directing the elections through hacking. And now European media, including the French magazine Le Big Data, are talking about the fear of a large-scale Russian cyber attack against the infrastructure in the European Union countries against the background of the escalation of the conflict on Ukrainian lands, and from here a number of countries sent their experts to help Ukraine in facing the threats to cyber security after the escalation Malicious cyber attacks.

Teens control cybersecurity

The American movie Sneakers 1992, starring Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley and written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, also blames the Russian side for trying to control the world through piracy, through the story of a Russian scientist who invented a device that would break any automatic code. Secret Service in various major countries to obtain it, including the US National Security Agency.

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In 1995, the cinema also presented a direct movie about piracy, as evidenced by its name, which is Hackers, directed by Ian Softley and starring Angelina Jolie and John Lee Miller, in which a teenager creates a virus that destroys computers and becomes wanted by security, and remains under surveillance until he reaches the age of 18, and he was not It is very different from the movie Hacker 2016, and its story revolves around a group of teenagers who are involved in crimes via the Internet, and it is taken from a true story, and it was directed by Akai Steve.

DThe artwork was a pioneer in alerting people to electronic warfare, and it was also a victim, as happened in the American movie "The Interview", which some supporters of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un considered as a mockery and insult to him. The film was shown in 2014, and Sony, the producer, received He had threats and an electronic attack that resulted in the leaking of many confidential correspondences in the company, as well as some of its films that had not been shown, and he was responded to by a similar attack on some North Korean institutions. In the end, the impact here may be limited to North Korea, but it caused huge financial losses for Sony, and as confirmed by Ihab Khalifeh in his book: “Cyber ​​War... Preparing to Lead the Military Battle in the Fifth Field,” “This type of war is not one of It is easy to place the opponent in a real threat, depending on the nature of each country. And he adds, "The countries that are subjected to cyber attacks are the ones that can estimate the extent of the enormity of these attacks and the losses resulting from them, and then one country may launch a retaliatory cyber attack on another with the aim of achieving deterrence with retaliation, and that it can hit certain targets within it, but this attack is at the discretion of the state." The victim is ineffective, and in this case deterrence fails.”

"Mr. Robot" excels

Despite the interest of cinema for decades in the world of piracy and its connection to politics and the fight against terrorism, where the first spark was launched in 1983 with the movie War Games, then films such as GoldenEye 1995, which is one of the films of the James Bond series starring Pierce Brosnan, Bourne Ultimatum 2007 by Matt Damon, and Swordfish 2001 by John Travolta and Hugh Jackman, those involved in this world always ridicule the way piracy is presented on the screen and consider it a joke that has nothing to do with reality, even the famous Daniel Craig movie Skyfall 2012, which is also one of the James Bond films, and regardless of its success and plot, but the emergence of pirates And the organizers of cyber attacks during events live on a remote island for fear of being tracked is unrealistic, especially since camouflaging the place for them is very easy and is done through encryption, no matter where they live.

While the series "Mr. Robot" by Rami Malek and the story of Sam Ismail and directed by Nils Arden Oplev, in its four parts, is the ideal work for the world of cybersecurity, as the hero is a computer engineer and hacker named Elliot Alderson, who is recruited by a mysterious figure, to hack data of major entities and institutions, believing Including that these companies are the main reason for the corruption of society, and the series presented its first season in 2015, where details of piracy and electronic penetrations were presented in a way that is closer to what is happening in reality, and all delicate technological aspects were taken into account.