Ok, I've even argued this point with family members. People go pretty apeshit about the Feds watching the Internet. Think back to the 1700s, Paul Revere? The British are coming? History of course, the British invasion now consists of Def Leppard, The Beatles etc. Now, the Internet is born, originally created by DARPA and around 3 universities, one of them being University of Utah in the state I currently reside. Present day, more modern, more dangerous, and more useful. A form of information, disinformation, entertainment, porn, danger of all kinds, and even education, job hunting, work, and dating/befriending. Well, I see the Internet as this. Remember that young kid sci fi book, A Wrinkle in Time? The Internet is a portal, or an ocean...people leave their systems on 24/7 sometimes, and with broadband end up in botnets, hacked, ID Theft etc. It's not just money and your credit history but wars rage as we speak. We "surf the net" because it's an ocean of danger and information and enjoyment too. So, now our Feds are being Paul Revere, but the attacks come from all sides. I haven't checked in quite some time, but the FBI alone received, a couple years back or so, 20,000 Cybercrime complaints per MONTH. Do you want a digital pearl harbor, or 9/11? Even our frienemies, Russia and China, installed sleeper worms/virii in our power grid which we are still weeding out, in case we ever start trouble with them in a warlike manner. Recently, a few years back, some IT guys thought they'd save the Feds a few dollars by buying some Cisco routers on Ebay. Turns out they were Chinese counterfeits with backdoors sending info (allegedly) to the Chinese. You know where they were installed? The Pentagon, and every military branch. I suggest buying a copy of Spies Among Us by Ira Winkler, a former NSA IT Security guy. It basically says that everyone and their dog attacks the USA, everyone. Except Israel because we're their only backup. The funny thing about the USA/Feds, is if they do nothing, people bitch and moan and say, why don't you do something. Aren't you our government? But then they do stuff, and then people bitch and moan and say "what the hell are you doing? Aren't you our government?" That, my friends, is a catch 22, but they still serve us, because they ARE us. Even congress isn't grown in a lab somewhere to rule over us peasants. Do you see much precision in our government? Exactly! Do you see much precision in society? Ok, I've made my point when it comes to that. I mean, yes, stay involved, whine a bit but don't go arming yourselves and making tin foil hats and thinking Obama is not a citizen or the anti-christ. Really. Don't you still have your guns? Not that they' d do any good against a huge military, robots, nano-tech, ginourmous bombs, not counting enough nukes to blow up the earth 100 times, and then there's our allies. Yup, we do have allies that would land on our soil and bring out a can of whoop ass that would make WW2 look like a skeet shoot. If you think that's glorious, maybe you should stop smoking whatever drugs you're smoking. If you're completely sober, maybe you should grab a toke and sit back and reflect a little. But, anyhow, the Internet, even if your computer is off and disconnected, is on 24/7 and is most likely the only network in the entire world that has 100% uptime, or at least the near 99.999% uptime companies claim to have. I don't like being spied on, but you know, the Feds are trained, even when they didn't answer to someone for a while, oh lookie, the CIA got in trouble. The great huge big CIA answers to the people. Seems like an ok system even if it isn't perfect. I'm not perfect but you know, I hope nobody blows me up, at least not unless I'm dying anyhow, around 89 years old, and the world is about to explode anyhow. Go out with a bang, I say. But yeah, there's also worse than spies online. Pedos stalk family photos online, use internet tools you haven't dreamed of to find your kids, and bingo, they're a statistic, then there's criminals, cults, serial killers/rapists, and god knows what else is online waiting to take a bite out of your arse while the Feds are trying to take a bite out of theirs. You know, if the government were so bad, you'd have the gistapo kicking down your door the minute you posted "OMG, the Feds suck, I hate taxes and Obama is a commie liberal!" Well, he has better things to do like help this country.
But back to the security of the net. You know how many botnets there are in the world? There's millions if not more. Oh but they can't crack my encryption! Really? Ever hear about distributed computing? SETI@Home is one of the latest encarnations. The first, I can't remember the name, was used to crack encryption. Don't tell me hackers/crackers aren't using that on their own when that's the first use of distributed computing in the first place! It'd take a mainframe 1000 years to crack that 128bit cipher? I bet 20 million infected computers could do it in a month or two, who knows! You know, computer security books all say, the only secure computer is the one you block up in cement and drop in the ocean, and someone will find it eventually. Still not taking this down but it may have already been tampered with.
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