May 15, 2017
The Exponential Growth of
Insecurity
The Exponential Growth of
Insecurity
Paul Craig Roberts
There is no such thing as
cyber security. The only choice is more security or less security, as the
recent hack of the National Security Agency demonstrates.
Hackers stole from NSA a
cyber weapon, which has been used in attacks (at time of writing) on 150
countries, shutting down elements of the British National Health Service, the
Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica, automakers Renault and Nissan,
Russia’s Interior Ministry, Federal Express, the energy company PetroChina, and
many more.
The news spin is to not
blame NSA for its carelessness, but to blame Microsoft users for not updating
their systems with a patch issued two months ago. But the important questions
have not been asked: What was the NSA doing with such malware and why did NSA
not inform Microsoft of the malware?
Clearly, NSA intended to
use the cyber weapon against some country or countries. Why else have it and
keep it a secret from Microsoft?
Was it to be used to shut
down Russian and Chinese systems prior to launching a nuclear first strike
against the countries?
Congress should be asking this question as it is certain
that the Russian and Chinese governments are. As I previously reported, the
Russian High Command has already concluded that Washington is preparing a
nuclear first strike against Russia, and so has China.
It is extremely dangerous
that two nuclear powers have this expectation. This danger has received no
attention from Washington and its NATO vassals.
Microsoft president Brad
Smith likened the theft of the NSA’s cyber weapon to “the US military having
some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen.” In other words, with cyber weapons, as
with nuclear weapons and short warning times, things can go wrong in a big way. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39915440
What if the hackers had
successfully attacked the Russian Ministry of Defense or radar warning systems,
would the Russian High Command have concluded that the cyber attack was
Washington’s prelude to incoming ICBMs?
The fact that no one in
Washington or any Western government has stepped forward to reassure the
Russian government and demand the removal of the US missile bases surrounding
Russia indicates a level of hubris or denial that is beyond comprehension.
In my May 12 posting I
wrote: “The costs of the digital revolution exceed its benefits by many times.
The digital revolution rivals nuclear weapons as the most catastrophic
technology of our time.” In response, Robert Henderson wrote to me from England
that he had addressed the enormous costs of the digital revolution in 2010.
Here is the link to his article, “Men and Machines: Which is Master Which is
Slave?” https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/men-and-machines-which-is-master-which-is-slave/
Reading his article will
raise your awareness. When you add up the vast financial costs, the
depersonalization of human relationships, and the complete loss of individual
privacy and security, the benefit of being connected is vastly outweighed by
the costs.
Paper files are far more
secure. Malware cannot be introduced into them. To steal a person’s information
required knowing the location of the information, breaking into the building,
searching file cabinets for the information, and copying the information. To
intercept a voice communication required a warrant to wiretap a specific
telephone line.
People born into a world
where the ease of communication comes at the price of the loss of autonomy
never experience privacy. They are unaware that a foundation of liberty has
been lost.
In our era of controlled
print and TV media, the digital revolution serves for now as a check on the
ruling elite’s ability to control explanations. However, the same technology
that currently permits alternative explanations can be used to prevent them.
Indeed, efforts to discredit and to limit non-approved explanations are already
underway.
The enemies of truth have a
powerful weapon in the digital revolution and can use it to herd humanity into
a tyrannical distopia. The digital revolution even has its own Memory Hole.
Files stored electronically by older technology can no longer be accessed as
they exist in an outdated electronic format that cannot be opened by current
systems in use.
Humans are proving to be
the most stupid of the life forms. They create weapons that cannot be used
without destroying themselves. They create robots and free trade myths that
take away their jobs. They create information technology that destroys their
liberty.
Dystopias tend to be
permanent. The generations born into them never know any different, and the
control mechanisms are total.
And the digital screen
serves as Soma.
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