Humanity can’t live without information because it is the source of not only the elementary knowledge but also social status, profits, and certain advantages. Information is the modern instruments of the life you want to get.
Information’s role is very important nowadays no doubt. Information is available everywhere that was favourable for the development of new psychological addiction that is information addiction.
Turn around and you’ll find yourself covered with information that doesn’t allow breathing. But no, breathing is information and nothing more.
Information is the unique form of manipulation as with its help it is possible to make people believe in everything you want and to make people do everything you want.
It is always necessary to tell useful and true information from the waste with which libraries and Mass Media are filled not to mention internet.
Governments want to get information that will help them to realize and achieve aims using information and keeping it. This use and keeping can be made in such spheres as politics, economics, military sphere, etc. The knowledge about information that the enemy has is the way that allows to become stronger and to decrease the possibilities of the enemy or to resist the power of the enemy protecting the values including information.
Information weapon influences information that has the enemy and its information functions. And in such case the information functions of the one who attacks are protected that allows decreasing the will and the possibilities of warfare.
So, information warfare is any kind of attack against the information function independent from the taken measures. The telephone exchange attacking is also one of the information attacks. The same can be said about the destruction of digital systems work.
Information warfare is any activity on the protection of proper functions. And protection and the defence walls building round the telephone exchange is also the way of information warfare. The same holds true for the loading of the necessary antivirus programs to protect the software.
Information war is only the way and not the final aim like bombing of the certain territory is also the way of the special strategy attacks holding and defence ways. In such case information attack is the original information bombing.