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The purpose of this article is to show, using the examples from the Defense department (available in open sources), that software products are becoming overly complex, practically exceeding the resources of mankind, especially in the context of cyber warfare. For illustration, we use F-35 aircraft Autonomic Logistics Information System, a story about cyber threats of software-based weapons systems, US Army Single Security Architecture as the failure in the fight against cyber threats. Cyber-attack on the Colonial Pipeline is a case of cyber war. In the context of an impending cyber war and given the failures to eliminate cyber threats in many projects, each comparable to the Manhattan nuclear project it should be recognized that their implementation is currently beyond the competence of individual companies and even governments and is becoming a problem of international cooperation. Therefore, an international agreement on cyber warfare is required, for example, like the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
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Sneps-Sneppe, M., Namiot, D. (2023). On Digital Twin Software and Cyber Threats. In: Koucheryavy, Y., Aziz, A. (eds) Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems. NEW2AN 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13772. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30258-9_43
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