The reality is that future cyber warfare will likely resemble medieval siege warfare – as critical infrastructure and vital services to a city's population are shut-down and locked-out as a result of a ransomware attack.

— Gunter Ollmann, The future of technology in warfare: From drone swarms to VR torture (2018)

Source: https://www.techworld.com/security/future-of-technology-in-warfare-3652885/

Quoted in a 2018 Techworld article by Thomas Macaulay and Tamlin Magee.

Topics: security