Cyber War : the era of the Fifth Domain

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2022

Developments emerging from China  in 2007 identified "target practice" activity in space

 advance preparations already underway capable of targeting space satellites.

In addition an orbital hypersonic weapons system is already in place

By 2020 an arsenal of anti-satellite weaponry was in space

These long-term developments show the typical slow and steady style of a major longterm plan.

All this in a climate of denial

The time frame until the risk potential for conflict in the Space domain is diminishing quickly: from 2025-2044 the power struggle for space dominance is set to really emerge from the shadows.

December 2018

Alert level raised re activities of hackers operating through China

The New Zealand security service [GCSB] confirms that business and technological data and intellectual property have been targeted

April 2017
Cyber-sabotage suspected when north Korea's missile launch fails on startup

December 2016
hackers create simulacrum browser to bleed companies of millions 

As human technology expands

 so do the territory or theatres of warfare

From land based skirmishes, to battles at sea, then air, - commencing in former times with kite and balloon assisted weaponry, long before the pronounced use of airplanes in the twentieth century - and beyond the earth domain into space - where to date only test programs have been enacted with no casualties -already anticipating future military scenarios: 

the major powers are effectively enabled for military engagements in outer space.

This of course has the potential to impact geostationary satellites.

space.stackexchange.com  loaded 2012

Land, Sea, Air, Space - the four domains of human exploration are already militarized, but we have entered now the Fifth Domain of Cyberspace - which has more potential for widespread destruction than anything other than nuclear weaponry.

The following astro-analysis looks at elemental, planetary and zodiac energies as a template for predictions about cyberwar

The Air domain encompasses all hackable electronic devices and the global internet.
An elemental and energetic analysis based on the quartet of fire-earth-air-water elements shows why this is a critical era for cyberwar.
Land =earth
Sea = water
Air = air
Space = air
Cyberspace = air

The shift in domains away from the most physical to the most virtual reflects general trends in technologies.

In terms of the elemental forces embedded in all things, this is an earth to air transition period
In energetic terms the template of astrological signs matches this perfectly:

• Earth & physical/material objects corresponds to Taurus.
• Earth & physical/material structures correspond to Capricorn
• Earth & physical/material systems correspond to Virgo
• Air communications and messaging = Gemini, the human network
• Air technologies are Aquarius, the electronic network

Warfare is Aries energy

 delivered through Mars

Our contemporary era 2011-2016 features the most obvious indicators of a fuller scale entry into cyberwarfare [but this will not be the end of it] - ushered in by the energetic impulse provided by:

• - transformational/destructive Pluto forces altering Capricornian societal structures and infrastructure
• - radical/anarchic/ Uranus expressing through aggressive militaristic Aries.

[As Uranus remains in Aries until 2019, further time frames are open for all kinds of electronic warfare/cyber attacks] 

Uranus is the natural channel for the air element of Aquarius = the electronic network.

The Uranus-Aries signature has high level potential for computer driven technologies to launch destructive attacks on national infrastructure

• The elemental transition from earth to air dominance in technologies in the Jupiter-Saturn cycle has been preceded by repeated conjunctions in the earth element from 1842 until the end of 1980. 
• From 1981 to May 28, 2000 there was a sequence of Air conjunctions. 
• From May 28, 2000 to Dec 21, 2020 is the last gasp in Earth element dominance [focus on material objects & grossly physical technologies] for hundreds of years.

• A decline in materialistic values and attachment to the physical, eg disdain for possessions is inevitable during the Air dominant period increasingly over the next two hundred years from 2021.

• This 200 year period will see extensive embedded data systems in terms of technology but also an increase in the human mental capacity for mind-to-mind non-verbal communications, thought transference/telepathy  mind-reading using electromagnetic frequencies as opposed to physical speech or writing

With Uranus in Taurus 2019-2026 a further disconnect, detachment from material and physical technologies is likely to become manifest

In addition:

• Less reliance on physical, material objects eg. a cashless economy, more wireless, less cabling, the end of wallets full of swipe cards; those objects which become mainstream are more highly sophisticated, technologically.
• Less paper documents and objects.
• Reading and writing switch predominantly to electronic mode

From 2025-2044 Pluto is is the Air sign Aquarius which has clear implications for technology -both positive and negative

More widespread cyberwar

 is likely in this era, 2025-2044

The Cyberwar domain

is both terrestrial and in space

involves computerised systems and networks

Developments before 2025 accelerated during Uranus in Taurus [2018-2026] lay the structures and practices in place for what evolves under Pluto in Aquarius

Remote activation and terrestrial airspace as the field of operation are both relevant to the Aquarian era.

While groups and networks will form to develop transformational and egalitarian technologies there is equally scope for destructive use of technology where people seek to gain power, control and dominate through electronic means.

updates

2025 May

Minor edits or updates added to original 2012 post

Some 2012 links may have expired 

Pluto in Aquarius is only at 3.5º and may well be implicated in another financial crisis in less than a year - exacerbated this time by the nature of high speed electronic trading in addition to any nefarious deeds.

THE INTRODUCTION TO A 2016 CYBERWAR POST adds a reference to the Jupiter-Saturn cycle and its entry into AIR [ Aquarius] in December 2020 - this fundamental societal cycle remains in Air signs for around 200 years. This means the 2020s mark the termination of the prior 200 year cycle.

2013:
The big topic is state & global surveillance including the roles played by the American NSA, British GCHQ  New Zealand's GCSB. Wikileaks, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden have been to the forefront of disclosing state secrets. These articles in September 2013 summarise current issues:
How to remain secure
The undermining of encrypted communications

2014
News item on Eugene Kaspersky lists many cybercrime heists uncovered:
IT system of Antwerp's shipping port taken offline to allow a cocaine drop
Mining company software hacked to siphon off a quantity of coal over 5 yr period
Petrol loyalty cards loaded with discounts and mass produced
UK customs IT collapse causing major port and airport congestion
Mafia's entry into cybercrime
Mobile devices and Smart TVs being remotely accessed and hacked
The future targets will be much larger infrastructure

FBI is seeking to arrest Chinese nationals operating from a military unit for the purpose of stealing trade secrets and intellectual property from a range of US companies

China denies the charges and wants them withdrawn

2015
April
Islamic State fighters believed to be involved in the shutdown of TV5Monde network in Paris. Broadcasts were blacked out and online media pages hacked

November 2015
Tech savvy youth seen as key to US modern warfare
Anonymous hacking group declares war on IS - and is preparing to unleash waves of cyber attacks

Following the series of terror attacks in Paris on Nov 13 2015 the West has responded to the atrocities.

October 2016:

• Weaponised Malware
• Big sites subjected to denial of service
• October 21 DOS attack
• Wikileaks suspected
• Trade officials hacked in foreign hotel

Further Reading:

Cyberwar is here now
Confront and Conceal  - Sanger's book on cyberwarfare
Uranus square Pluto
Jupiter-Saturn cycle
Jupiter-Saturn tables
History of Aerial Warfare
Wiki on Aerial Warfare
Wiki on Space Warfare

Testing the electronic buzz around you

Sanyo Transistor radio courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Call me old fashioned, but I still rely on the traditional small portable transistor radio for background sound while working. If something extra interesting is under discussion, I am even happy to carry the radio on a neighborhood stroll while walking the dog. No slim ear-bud connected model for me!
This simple AM-FM radio device is also a useful detector of signals sent by other devices so if  you want to check on your neighbourhood's signal traffic aka electronic pollution, you will find that carrying the radio, while tuned to a broadcast station allows you to pick up signal interruptions from other sources.
I had already known that the radio signal goes wild and squealy when placed anywhere near devices like your phone base station, your laptop, computer screen and hard-drive - indicating how much unseen "stuff" is coming off these electronic items - in fact you will find more if you live in a highly electronic environment. I also know that the radio makes noises when a cellphone signal is picked up somewhere close by - even if not in my own home.
In my local, usually very quiet residential neighbourhood, there is a point where lots of signals are being emitted - possibly from a small telephone junction point or possibly from some wi-fi activity. Whatever is doing it, I would not consider that an energetically healthy place to be living. Insomnia, fatigue and symptoms of generally feeling unwell are in the range of possible responses to excess electronic interference with the body's own electrical system.

Also read this SMH article re mobile devices and 'phantom vibrations", "EM signal handshakes"