Cyberwar

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Dry Bones cartoon: hacking, Computers, War, Nerds, Technology, Wikileaks,

Latest Report:

Cyberwar report: Israel, Finland best prepared for conflict
31st January 2012 16:01 GMT
Analysis: Israel, Finland and Sweden are more prepared than larger nations to fight a conflict in cyberspace, according to a McAfee-backed cyber-defence study.
The study, Cyber-security: The Vexed Question of Global Rules, is based on interviews with experts in the nascent field by by McAfee and Security & Defence Agenda, a defence think-tank. No metrics are involved in the study, which even McAfee admits is largely subjective. Brussels-based SDA based its conclusions on "in-depth interviews with some 80 world-leading policy-makers and cyber-security experts" in government, business and academia in 27 countries as well as an anonymous survey of 250 world leaders in 35 countries.
For the record, among the key findings of the report are the contention that the state of cyber-readiness of the US, Australia, UK, China and Germany all rank behind that of smaller countries such as Israel, Sweden and Finland. -more

Labels: Computers, hacking, Nerds, Technology, War, Wikileaks

3 Comments:

At 7:14 AM, Eric said...: Best title would have been "Revenge of the Nerds" ! :D
At 1:17 PM, nerd said...: It is not a war between nerds and countries. The war is in basic on who is the boss over the internet. And the internet is worldwide, while gouvernments have only jurisdiction in their countries. All kind of gouvernments want to censor the internet, like China Iran etc. The USA starts a block on child porn, wikileaks and pirate bay. They make laws like SOPA and POPA. http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/technology/sopa_explained/index.htm The europeans are working on ACTA http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/

Restrictions in the internet can be used for all kinds of censorship. The nerds are not fighting for illegal content or child porn, but for the freedom of speach for all of us.

The internet as we designed it is open. Making restrictions don't work and will hurt the whole system. There is no legal world gouvernment, so there is no legal censorship on the internet. The open system is were nerds are fighting for.
At 7:06 PM, mrdovie said...: The same thing happened to Short Wave Radio in the 1930s... We in the USA got the FCC & You Got'ta have a Licence. Hey! You got a licence to operate that computer?!