{"id":78675,"date":"2018-05-15T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/these-army-graphic-novels-predict-the-future-of-cyber-warfare"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:06:06","slug":"these-army-graphic-novels-predict-the-future-of-cyber-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/these-army-graphic-novels-predict-the-future-of-cyber-warfare","title":{"rendered":"These Army Graphic Novels Predict the Future of Cyber Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In \u201cEngineering<\/a> a Traiter,\u201d the year is 2027, and a former military<\/a> officer named Jay Roberts has just engineered a missile attack in downtown Houston \u2014 except he doesn\u2019t know that it\u2019s his fault.<\/p>\n

This sombre graphic novel tells the story of Roberts, an army engineer working in Texas who\u2019s been targeted by a militia eager to gain access to building codes in order to orchestrate a terrorist attack. With sophisticated A.I., the militia manipulate everything in Roberts\u2019s life. The news he sees is curated to instil hopelessness and despair, and family members\u2019 social media accounts are hijacked to distance Roberts from loved ones. Frustrated and alone, he eventually confesses security information to a \u201cfriend\u201d he\u2019s made online, allowing the militias the access they\u2019ve been hoping for. Once they have what they want, Roberts\u2019 social media is manipulated to make him look like a radicalized terrorist. When the attack occurs, he takes the fall.<\/p>\n

The narrative may be science fiction<\/a>, but it paints a realistic \u2014 if not paranoid \u2014 vision of the future. That bleakness is exactly what Brian David Johnson wanted when he began penning a series of graphic novels for the Army Cyber Institute<\/a> at West Point.<\/p>\n

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In \u201cEngineering a Traiter,\u201d the year is 2027, and a former military officer named Jay Roberts has just engineered a missile attack in downtown Houston \u2014 except he doesn\u2019t know that it\u2019s his fault. This sombre graphic novel tells the story of Roberts, an army engineer working in Texas who\u2019s been targeted by a militia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78696,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78675\/revisions\/78696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}