INTERNATIONAL CYBER TERRORISM: A GLOBAL APOCALYPTIC ‘TIME-BOMB’

Abstract

Given the devastation of the two World Wars, the reluctance of world powers to fashion the part of peace against that which ignited those wars, another World War could be imminent, and such could be cyber-base or cyber-ignited.Given that man did not institute violence, but as a subsistent agent, humanity was replete with interpersonal rivalry; and as a social actor man has been enmeshed in the gauge of tensions, conflations, confrontations and wars—each platform advances over the other in intensity and complexity, in scope and devastation. Apparently and even though the intensity of ideological (including religious) rivalry has never waned, the strategies deployed havebecome scintillating, provocative, sharper, more precise and exact—with further devolution and progress in internet/cyber technology, which though has introduced better modes in communication and transportation; effectiveness and efficiency. Nevertheless, this technology hasbecome handy for malevolence. Thus, adopting some phenomenological and analytical tool to review existing theoretical amid evident factual material, this work espouses need for cybertechnology and discovers that its abuse (criminality and terrorism) is fast outweighing its relevance in the necessity for posterity of humanity. It thus concludes that, given its trajectory and unless reversed, a third world war would be largely cyberwarfare and annihilating.It however recommends restraint and caution on the part of international actors both on adversarial missions and the development/deployment of cyber-intelligence.