Forbes

Mozilla Slams CISPA, Breaking Silicon Valley’s Silence On Cybersecurity Bill Forbes While we wholeheartedly support a more secure Internet, CISPA has a broad and alarming reach that goes far beyond Internet security. The bill infringes on our privacy, includes vague definitions of cybersecurity,

You have to give credit where credit is due and here is another case where Mozilla has spoken up and put its Internet nuts on the line and said this CISPA thing is oh so wrong and here’s why its wrong.

Last year when the Feds starting shutting down web sites willy nilly with no due process Mozilla made available an addon for its Firefox browser that automatically redirected surfers to  alternative sites set up by the owners of the shut down sites. They took some heat for doing this.

At the time, they were the only one of the major browser publishers that did this although perhaps there was another addon available for the Chrome browser which Google may have allowed to be used.

So far … looks like they are the only ones taking a public stand on this issue too.

Lets support those who help support us.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Cyber bill to put US in charge of global cyber security Sydney Morning Herald It will place the United States at the forefront of the battle against international internet-driven crime by threatening economic sanctions on countries that allow cyber attacks to originate on their so

Why not give these senators who some how think they control not just the sheep in the U.S. but the sheep all around the world a taste of their own medicine … and instead of them censoring us, we censor them, as it should be.

How can we do that you ask? Money is the milk of politics, so we shut off their money supply? By all accounts they already spend something like 70% of their time canvassing for donations for their next re-election campaign. That’s why they get so little done for Joe Blow public … and even that has to be ok’d by their “campaign sponsors”. Get the picture?

Now do see why H.L. Mencken once remarked that America has the best government money can buy. He also said a good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The only real power the sheep (voters) have left is their vote, which is required to add legitimacy to the whole corrupt process. Take away your vote and you take away their power and money if they aren’t elected. I mean … nobody gets elected because no one votes. It’s a drastic action for desperate times.

It’s the only thing the sheep have left before they will be completely devoured by the body politic and its military muscle.

Evidently in the latest attempt to get the SOPA/PIPA legislation passed it is being re-introduced disguised as a cyber security bill, or in other words a wolf in wolf’s clothing.

Everything is being used against the sheep now, and the sheep’s only chance is to starve the wolves from the one thing they need before they can kill all the sheep … their re-election to political office.

Hackers Disrupt Israel Airline, Stock Market Sites – ABC News

Hackers Disrupt Israel Airline, Stock Market Sites ABC News But the ongoing salvos by hackers who use anti-Israel language in their posts has revealed how vulnerable Israel is to cyber warfare, despite its sophisticated computer security units in the military and advanced high-tech sector. …

The cyber attacks here and elsewhere that are now pretty much part of the daily news bring  one important new element to the so called geopolitical state of affairs.

With technology has come computers and the networking of them together to perform very important commercial and public infrastructure tasks, and in particular communications, which is the central hub around which everything else twirls.

Just ONE person with a decent brain and an internet connection can now effectively be a threat to a wired  nation state and its geopolitical interests. That person has become known as a hacker but the “power of one” has never been more commanding. Also consider that there are probably tens of thousands with the power of one sitting out there somewhere practicing and polishing their skills for the day they will be needed. What we see daily so far are likely just little tech drills to poke and prod things and work out the kinks in the big plan.

The example here today shows for instance how vulnerable hi tech Israel has become. A few hackers could seriously affect the operation of the economy and create a financial and political disaster within a few days of interrupting communications, transportation, banking, and power distribution of any advanced state.

Any nation state is now able to reach out and “touch” their attacker using a hacker or group of hackers from anywhere in the world just as easily as a powerful nation state can reach out and touch their foes with missiles or smart bombs.

The important thing is to realize that no state no matter how powerful they are militarily can now attack another state or region without consequences at home.

Even a weak state or its sympathizers can launch a cyber counter attack against the homeland of a much more powerful foe … and ironically that cyber attack may inflict much more damage to the hi tech state then a bunch of bombs can to a low tech state. The history of Empires show they erode and collapse because of over expansion and with that comes excessive debt, currency debasement, and eventual bankruptcy.  An effectively timed cyber attack could push such a state sitting on the edge over the brink, so do not under estimate  the power of electrons in today’s world.

In addition, the population of the hi tech state will now be directly affected by any military attack initiated by their elected politicians … and that has tremendous consequences.

For the first time war may come directly home to the North American population. In the past, populations in the U.S. and Canada have escaped that situation, but no more.

Europe has always known first hand the consequences of war on your own turf and once led Winston Churchill to remark that it was better to talk talk then war war.

Perhaps this now has to become part of the conversation here to … before we reach out and “touch” someone with our bombs and other hi tech people killers and then find out the hard way how
the other guy can now hit back effectively for practically no cost with just a few quick clicks on a keyboard.

As Cyber-Attack Threat Grows, Cybersecurity Industry Booms – BrainTrack

As Cyber-Attack Threat Grows, Cybersecurity Industry Booms BrainTrack Welcome to the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), where students compete in a “cyber-war game” scenario to help prepare them for work in the growing cybersecurity industry. Teams defend a fictitious company’s network, while skilled …

With the scarcity of high paying jobs in today’s job market and kids graduating from schools of higher learning with a worthless piece of paper and big loans to pay off this may be the golden goose.

Get some retraining as some sort of cyber security specialist and chances are there will be some government agency out there willing to give you a job paying big bucks.

Don’t look for it to be a long term career though, so use the income to pay off your student loans as fast as you can and buy the financial and emotional freedom that comes with it.

Your cyber career in government is not likely to be long however since the government is quickly going bankrupt … and in a public service job like this, the ones with the lowest seniority will be the first to get the boot.

It will give you experience however and get rid of your debt, and in today’s world that’s a big head start.

The battle for Internet security – Military & Aerospace Electronics (blog)

Daily Mail

The battle for Internet security Military & Aerospace Electronics (blog) Having attacked Mastercard and many other high-profile companies as a response to government action against Wikileaks and Julian Assange, Anonymous and cyber security became a hot topic in the recent years. Since then, several groups have emerged to …

Lead the charge to what you ask?
Anarchy, Transparency, Truth In Government ???

We can’t know what the individual ambitions of a hacker or a group of hackers may be. They undoubtedly all have different axes to grind.

Like most people, i used to think that these people were a nuisance and just plain annoying. Why can’t they just  leave things alone i thought? When i was a kid i used to think the same about the anti Vietnam War protesters. Only many years  later did i realize they were on to something that i missed.

Now i’m not so sure that at least in some cases hackers perform a useful purpose. Much like how the free press is suppose to uphold democracy. We now see how well that is working out and the latest attempt with the SOFA thing to shut everybody online up … and any leftovers can be declared terrorists by the president with a stroke of a pen and tossed into jail and the key thrown away.

In that kind of environment we need hackers to reveal as much as they can about the dark dirty little secrets buried in government closets and everywhere else.

Are they really freedom fighters? I dunno. But they may be the last ones left willing to take on the man … and history shows that letting the man go too far only makes  for a bigger mess to be cleaned up.

The Top 10 Looming Computer Security Threats of 2012
DailyFinance
By Dawn Kawamoto, The Motley Fool Posted 3:00PM 01/03/12 Technology, Crime Cyber-security no longer means only protecting your computer from ne’er-do-wells. Hackers are cracking codes on all sorts of devices and getting sneaky about breaking into …
5 top cyber threats for 2012CBC.ca

What? Only 10 biggies. Looking down the daily list of cyber security news items it seems that everything we do online is either being monitored by some government agency or is being hacked by some hacker, and the agency itself is being hacked into.

What’s the difference whether it’s the government or a hacker prying their way into your business? Your information has little chance of remaining private unless extreme encryption methods are employed … which only makes you a more suspicious target.

How about back in the good old days when you sent a letter through the mail? It was probably a lot more secure than what we do today, and it wasn’t rocket science. Come to think about it maybe that is the best way to go for some privacy. It’s a lot easier for technology to monitor what’s being texted, written on online, and what’s being said  in voice transmissions then what’s scribbled on a piece of paper and sent through the mail … but watch those addresses aren’t red flagged,  and be patient with the snail delivery system.

There’s an old saying that your enemy’s enemy is your friend. Does that make big brother’s  big brother our friend? Probably no, but there’s a certain joy in knowing that big brother is just as annoyed if not more so in being watched then we are with them watching us.

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