Defensive Epidemic Networks
Chris Albon, the goto guy on warfare and health, as an interesting post on his brand new Conflict Health.
In it he touches on the idea that the self-replicating nature of epidemics can act as a kind of fortification (in that attacking the infected node results in failure). The only way to make this approach work (as the defender) is to be immune to the epidemic. Without this control, the biological weapon becomes all-consuming.
In terms of information warfare, this is a node that processes information, hacks it to a predefined algorithm (say replace every mention of any city location with “istanbul”), and transmits it. Not a search crawler, but a search processor that circulates this new, hacked information stream. Only the operator of the processor knows what the original signal was. This is an advantage.
-Shlok
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