And today, on the BBC WEBSITE we read:
“Yesterday”, it was StuxNet. And much of the talk of StuxNet’s origin centered on government/s.
The Internet is an “open invitation” to antics of, “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”. Will the Internet, as it is currently configured, be replaced by a communications system that is more secure. Iran now wants its own Internet. Will other countries follow suit?
The Internet was designed as a communication system that could deliver a message in time of war. A single Internet message leaves its source as a message broken down into bits and pieces. And those bits and pieces can each take different paths to the same destination. It is more difficult to disable that kind of communication system.
But, as usual, the nature of a tool depends upon whose hands that tool is in. Countries, Businesses and individual’s hands can express themselve via the Internet tool. But the results of those expressions can range from a gift of an open source program all the way up, or perhaps down, to a “gift” of StuxNet. And with little Internet oversight in place, the Internet can follow other major communications tools into a VAST WASTELAND.
The nature of a tool depends upon whose hands that tool is in along with the overall government management of that tool. The world is still evaluating the choice between REGULATION, DE-REGULATION and NEVER REGULATED. In critical and important communications systems, the answer ought to be obvious. But the “inertia” tool is a tough tool to get moving. YOU SEE – IN TODAY’S NEOCON WORLD EVERYBODY HAS REASONS TO SUSPECT EVERYBODY ELSE’S MOTIVES.
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