No smoking gun: Cyber weapons and drug traffickers

Henry Prunckun

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74107-9_11

No smoking gun: Cyber weapons and drug traffickers

Henry Prunckun

Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security

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Abstract

Drug trafficking is a criminal threat of billion-dollar proportions. Drug traffickers exercise international influence and Australian policymakers therefore need to reconsider the framework on which current policy rests. If the so-called war-on-drugs is couched in those terms, then it makes sense to explore a war-like approach—the use of information warfare to defeat drug traffickers’ information processes that are vital to supporting their worldwide financial networks as well as their command and control arrangements. This chapter promotes discussion about a drugs policy that focuses on attacking the source of the illicit drug problem using cyber weapons.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cyber weaponry
Subtitle of host publication	Issues and implications of digital arms
Editors	Henry Prunckun
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	11
Pages	143-156
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319741079
ISBN (Print)	9783319741062
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74107-9_11
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Name	Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications
Publisher	Springer
Volume	1613-5113
ISSN (Electronic)	2363-9466

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No smoking gun: Cyber weapons and drug traffickers. / Prunckun, Henry.
Cyber weaponry: Issues and implications of digital arms. ed. / Henry Prunckun. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018. p. 143-156 (Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications; Vol. 1613-5113).

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