Dim Mak

Dim Mak or 'Touch of Death' refers to a martial art that can supposedly kill while using seemingly less than lethal force targeted at specific areas of the body known as Dim Mak points (Wikipedia).

Last June 30, Gen. Victor Corpuz (yup, former ISAFP Chief) launched a book entitled "America's Dim Mak points: Unrestricted Warfare in the 21st century."  It talks about the United States' weak points where, when properly exploited, can lead to the downfall of US society.

 While driving to work last Monday, I chanced upon the General promoting his book on Lakay Deo's morning program over DZRH.  He was saying that the US could be taken down a lot simpler than what people think, and this can be achieved through attacks not using conventional weapons but through the US' Dim Mak points, one of which is Vulnerability to Electro-Information Attack.

 In the radio program, he focused on what he claimed to be America's incurable dependence on technology, particularly on ICT.  He cited the various attacks on America's cyber infrastructure that were carried out with relative ease producing maximum results.  He also cited that the Pentagon and the White House, the two Houses of Congress, the various financial institutions, and the households in that country are so ICT dependent that the failure of ICT in the US for even just one day, when properly exploited, can bring the US to its knees.

I won’t pretend to be an ICT expert nor a war strategist, but listening to him, his claims sound fairly plausible.

This is the downside of a rapidly growing dependence on ICT.  Machines are being made responsible for running a lot of things, and the list of these things is continuously growing by the minute.  Indeed, if the electric grid, the telecommunications system, the banks, the traffic lights, the hospitals, the processing of food, and a lot more, are ran by computers, then all one needs to do is make these computers fail, and everything will be at a standstill, at the very least.