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Security quote of the week
Nationalism is rife on the Internet, and it's getting worse. We need to
damp down the rhetoric and-more importantly-stop believing the propaganda
from those who profit from this Internet nationalism. Those who are beating
the drums of cyberwar don't have the best interests of society, or the
Internet, at heart.
-- Bruce
Schneier(Log in to post comments)
Security quote of the week Posted Mar 21, 2013 12:50 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]
I'll agree with Schneier that we should always broadcast mellow, neighborly messages.
And quietly harden our systems. No amount of warm, fuzzy rah-rah is going to do much about those negative, predatory aspects of human nature.
Security quote of the week Posted Mar 21, 2013 16:07 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
War is the health of the state.
Governments use war as a means to increase control over their own populations. It distracts people from economic crises caused by mismanagement, gives excuses for trampling of rights, justification for increase surveillance, and the means to stomp on any dissenters and political rivals. Not to also forget that along with war comes increased taxes and massive profits for people in positions to take advantage of it.
The 'cyber wars' are a manufactured crisis used for the same purpose that other 'wars' have been used for since the beginning of the modern times: Exploitation.
Security quote of the week Posted Mar 21, 2013 16:20 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]
What's going to be more interesting in the near term is how war is used to paper over certain infelicities in the bookkeeping.
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