Don't pick up wayward thumb-drives:
This is nothing new. We have been under constant threat from our "friends" the chinese for awhile now.
Lets not forget North Korea as well.
The DoD puts security policies in place for a reason and all I ever here is "well thats dumb" or "this is all _____ fault" or my favorite from when I was a NMCI tech "it wasn't like this before you guys messed stuff up"
I am just waiting for the day when I can go all shadowrun into the machine and stop all these cyber attacks.
This is nothing new. We have been under constant threat from our "friends" the chinese for awhile now. Lets not forget North Korea as well. The DoD puts security policies in place for a reason and all I ever here is "well thats dumb" or "this is all _____ fault" or my favorite from when I was a NMCI tech "it wasn't like this before you guys messed stuff up" I am just waiting for the day when I can go all shadowrun into the machine and stop all these cyber attacks.
After listening to that podcast it does seem that shadowrun style military Net/AI/Haxor-squads are really in our future.
Another country can bring down our power grid???
The comment that no company, including Google, can stand up against another country's cyber-attacks it sobering. I thought Google had the smartest people in the world, but apparently not.
Sam Harris saying what I have been thinking for some time
"Increasingly the Internet itself, given our reliance on it, is a source of destructive technology. I think we really have to worry about cyber terrorism and cyber crime increasingly. But there's obviously nuclear proliferation and bio-weapons and chemical weapons."
I'm starting to think that our government might go the way of BSG in the re-imagined series, go anachronistic by disconnecting in order to protect some of our most sensitive operations.
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Sam Harris saying what I have been thinking for some time
"Increasingly the Internet itself, given our reliance on it, is a source of destructive technology. I think we really have to worry about cyber terrorism and cyber crime increasingly. But there's obviously nuclear proliferation and bio-weapons and chemical weapons."
I'm starting to think that our government might go the way of BSG in the re-imagined series, go anachronistic by disconnecting in order to protect some of our most sensitive operations.
Well it would be fairly green. But can we really fight the Hordes with just swords?
Thumb drives have been identified as a major security concern for at least five years. I remember reading about some black hat conference where a presenter 'dropped" 50 thumb drives around a bank (outside the entrance, in first floor public bathrooms, etc) and was able to compromise security in a matter of minutes.
... I'm starting to think that our government might go the way of BSG in the re-imagined series, go anachronistic by disconnecting in order to protect some of our most sensitive operations.
Nice analogy, and let me add I don't think "going anachronistic" will be by choice. I think it will be a process of natural selection in that after *the fall* the majority of systems still surviving will be those that were not connected to begin with.
One day in the near future, it may be a lowly DOS machines that saves the day!
Thanks for posting the link, Tensor. Listening now.
One day in the near future, it may be a lowly DOS machines that saves the day!
Hurray for DOS. Now I just need to find my box of 3 1/2 disks, so I'll be prepared.