Inflicting complexity

[Carl Tollander]

After looking at Tom's ref on FB about teaching Military thinking to 2020 election security infrastructure in democracies ( https://apnews.com/222bd1402c96bc487f5a0a2dc5bff12c?fbclid=IwAR2PSR8UxoSlEoulaar8ITN1vRNRChd34VVgcU6WMNM4vOwnaEmr0eFOsQw )

I recalled an  STO (Strategic Technology Office) article on MOSAIC from a couple years back.   

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-08-04

There's a bunch of stuff about weaponizing complexity, and whether one approves or not, it is worth knowing about.

“If we’re successful,” Burns said, “mosaic warfighting and resulting effects webs will give us the ability to inflict vast levels of complexity on an adversary to deter and counter aggression.”

"Inflicting Complexity..." . Always suspected, but ......hmmmm.

Carl

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[Tom Johnson]

Carl:

Ah, how I appreciate young minds who can call up articles from two years ago.

I wonder if there might be something in the STO's MOSAIC concept that could be used to defend against attacks on all levels of our voting system(s) and even attack the attackers?

Such would require time and money -- and might be impossible given our lack of voting process standards.  But something must be done to maintain, or regain, trust in participatory democracy.

TJ

On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:40 AM Carl Tollander <[hidden email]> wrote:

After looking at Tom's ref on FB about teaching Military thinking to 2020 election security infrastructure in democracies ( https://apnews.com/222bd1402c96bc487f5a0a2dc5bff12c?fbclid=IwAR2PSR8UxoSlEoulaar8ITN1vRNRChd34VVgcU6WMNM4vOwnaEmr0eFOsQw )

I recalled an  STO (Strategic Technology Office) article on MOSAIC from a couple years back.   

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-08-04

There's a bunch of stuff about weaponizing complexity, and whether one approves or not, it is worth knowing about.

“If we’re successful,” Burns said, “mosaic warfighting and resulting effects webs will give us the ability to inflict vast levels of complexity on an adversary to deter and counter aggression.”

"Inflicting Complexity..." . Always suspected, but ......hmmmm.

Carl

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