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Degradation and Subversion through Subsystem Attacks
July/August 2010 (vol. 8 no. 4)
pp. 70-73
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Daniel Bilar, "Degradation and Subversion through Subsystem Attacks," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 70-73, July/August, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MSP.2010.122,
author = {Daniel Bilar},
title = {Degradation and Subversion through Subsystem Attacks},
journal ={IEEE Security & Privacy},
volume = {8},
number = {4},
issn = {1540-7993},
year = {2010},
pages = {70-73},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2010.122},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Daniel Bilar, University of New Orleans
Attacks targeting something or someone indirectly—nth order attacks against end systems--have occurred on a large scale in real life. It goes to the heart of how conflicts between open societies and their enemies are waged: trust subsystems. Trust helps lower tangible and intangible transaction costs between individuals, corporations, and the state. Members of "high-trust" societies like the United States leverage trust beyond family ties to form efficient civic and economic organizations. Because trust permeates every facet of open societies, it's a very easy assumption for malicious actors to violate.

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Index Terms:
nth order attack, Highly Optimized Tolerance, assumption violation, trust, attack, subsystem, systems, security
Citation:
Daniel Bilar, "Degradation and Subversion through Subsystem Attacks," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 70-73, July-Aug. 2010, doi:10.1109/MSP.2010.122
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