In Orwell’s 1984, the citizens live with omnipresent telescreens that push propaganda and act as a monitoring camera and microphone. The screens hung on walls; today we carry them in our pockets and pay for the privilege of doing so.
The US has tried to assert its colonial dominance over the internet, and has acted as though it is its domain since the beginning. That has had a lot of policy implications, and has created a “karma debt” that I think we are only starting to confront.
King Arthur was mortally wounded as a result of a military accident; allegedly his forces and Mordred’s were facing eachother in a state of high tension and one of the soldiers saw an adder, drew his sword to kill it, and everyone mis-read the waving steel and the battle began.
I guess it’s just part of the “political goon mindset” to want to be photographed standing in front of important-looking things. Donald Trump and his nachos, Kim Jong Un and his nuclear weapons explosive-lens carving CNC machine, and Rouhani by his breeder reactor control panel.
Just a reminder: messing with another country’s civilian power grid is a crime against humanity.
The US strategy regarding Venezuela appears to be to cause as much pain and disturbance as possible, while offering “help” contingent on ‘regime change.’
The RSA Conference is the biggest computer security trade-show held annually in San Francisco.
When something goes wrong, the surrounding supporting infrastructure must suddenly accept a new load.
The scenarios I read about cyberwar have always struck me as crude and more than a little bit pointless.
Those hypotheticals about voting machines being insecure? Hand me that tinfoil…