Fear, Fear This morning I thought about how fast our sense of being threatened had changed over a few decades. This is true not only for the experts and mankind as such, but we are all beginning to feel it. From the 1950’s, the whole planet was under a threat of nuclear and hydrogen bombs and nuclear missiles launched from the ground, submarines and airplanes. This threat didn’t disappear entirely, there are still some nutcakes in North Korea and elsewhere, but perhaps we can defend ourselves against those. The manual for making an amateur nuclear bomb is rather an urban tale. Biological and chemical weapons cannot be regulated, so they are essentially suicidal. An individual and suicidal terror has its unfortunate victims, but it is not a mass attack.
Also the overall understanding of criminality had changed. PIN numbers and personal data are sought after, false identities are being created. Pedophilia is showing a full-blown development thanks to social networks. Then the internet came, It’s easy to imagine technologies, networking, a coordinated attack on controlling everything stock markets that could imaginable through cause a collapse of the a computer. The damage entire economy. The first terrorists can cause attempts already took through destruction or place. targeted reprogramming Crooked competitors can destroy or cause or control networks is severe problems to their enemies through our badly protected private computers. They can not at all only material, freeze servers, deliver false messages or change the appearance of a website. Such infected but threatens the lives computers may be rented out without the knowledge of their owners. This is how new and of people perhaps even very profitable criminal businesses are created. more than the feared Even simple collection of personal data can be easily abused and sold for profit. atom. Rockets can be redirected and sent who knows where, the speculations about the influencing of routes of auto-pilot planes is no longer a speculation. It’s not hard to imagine disruptions to power and gas grids. Information, or rather disinformation, also has a huge capability. Targeted false news and alarms can cause mass hysteria, revolutions, waves of violence, confusion and chaos. The individual terrorism had moved, it’s organized and entire states are suspected to use and finance it.
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offices or banks. They gradually overfill the jails while it’s very hard to catch digital criminals. To identify and prove their guilt is nearly impossible. This only happens through infiltration into such groups using snitches. Personal, company as well as state security is becoming increasingly more expensive, which causes problems in common use. Additionally, crime is always a step ahead. The space open to crime opened very quickly. First we should increase our sensitivity to danger and be more careful. Social engineering using carelessness and human weaknesses developed quickly. Joseph Heller said in Catch 22 “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” From “The Information Age Arena” by Ivan Pilný and Tereza Kučerová published recently by Albatros Media By Ivan Pilný ■ Member of the Parliament, ANO party President of Tuesday Business Network české znění naleznete na našich stránkách www.leadersmagazine.cz
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