Rules to war are all fine and well, if everyone involved abides by them. The problem is that over the last decade or so, the real enemies the west has do not seem interested in following any rules.
Two expressions come to mine, There are no rules in Love and War, and Never put all your eggs in one basket.
If there is a massive cyberattack against the west, we're screwed because our enemies will not follow any rules and we do not have an emergency support network to fall back on if the Internet is made unusable. Connecting emergency services to the Internet and making them rely on it, and connecting utilities to the internet was not a wise move.
Re: "Connecting emergency services to the Internet and making them rely on it, and connecting utilities to the internet was not a wise move..."
How about rolling "redundancies" within the framework of the "emergency services"!!! Isn't it that the airlines industry is currently building such capacities!!!
Mergatroid Mania has a point, the real enemies to the west in the past few years not seem to be interested in following any rules... oh wait, maybe that's because we have killed their friends and family members while following the 'rules' and our 'rules' have pissed them off because they didn't prevent their family members deaths!
The blunt bottom line is that most of our 'enemies' we have created ourselves in the past 100 years, through our own actions in places like the Middle East, Asia and Africa.... we have NO ONE but ourselves to blame because we supported dictators in numerous cases and it came to bite us back in our butts.
There Is a real risk here. Most Encryption software relies on the fact that to get into any given Encrypted system requires a brute force attack but as PC's get more sophisticated so to slowly does the maths potential such that with the right knowhow one could possibly rely more on pattern recognition than on more pure brute force attacks. For a bank this may mean that they have to upgrade all there Encryption systems but where there are people open to attack they also become open to attacking especially over the next 10 years while the grid is still mostly dependent on older security. Imagine If you will embedded into your screen saver was attacking software that made use of your PC's power when you were not using it to turn a Dos attack into a full scale data mining operation. Right now today thats barley possible but over the years as the community and the hardware become more efficient at making use of the power then it could be. I Myself have been studying the Primes now for 2 and a half years and don't believe that the solution is 100 years away more like 5 years max. The reason is is that instead of doing non linear calculations with slower repetitive tasks Nonlinear maths can be done with high degree complex maths. the kind of maths that a computer today can with code optimization run quite well. This means that the waves on your water surface can be done predictively as opposed to generatively through fractal iterations for example and hence things like encryption analysis can eventually be done in such ways too ect. Great stuff to come in terms of potential but the risks to modern security are getting greater everywhere including the danger of zombie PC's.
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Two expressions come to mine, There are no rules in Love and War, and Never put all your eggs in one basket.
If there is a massive cyberattack against the west, we're screwed because our enemies will not follow any rules and we do not have an emergency support network to fall back on if the Internet is made unusable.
Connecting emergency services to the Internet and making them rely on it, and connecting utilities to the internet was not a wise move.
How about rolling "redundancies" within the framework of the "emergency services"!!! Isn't it that the airlines industry is currently building such capacities!!!
The blunt bottom line is that most of our 'enemies' we have created ourselves in the past 100 years, through our own actions in places like the Middle East, Asia and Africa.... we have NO ONE but ourselves to blame because we supported dictators in numerous cases and it came to bite us back in our butts.
Most Encryption software relies on the fact that to get into any given Encrypted system requires a brute force attack but as PC's get more sophisticated so to slowly does the maths potential such that with the right knowhow one could possibly rely more on pattern recognition than on more pure brute force attacks.
For a bank this may mean that they have to upgrade all there Encryption systems but where there are people open to attack they also become open to attacking especially over the next 10 years while the grid is still mostly dependent on older security.
Imagine If you will embedded into your screen saver was attacking software that made use of your PC's power when you were not using it to turn a Dos attack into a full scale data mining operation.
Right now today thats barley possible but over the years as the community and the hardware become more efficient at making use of the power then it could be.
I Myself have been studying the Primes now for 2 and a half years and don't believe that the solution is 100 years away more like 5 years max. The reason is is that instead of doing non linear calculations with slower repetitive tasks Nonlinear maths can be done with high degree complex maths. the kind of maths that a computer today can with code optimization run quite well. This means that the waves on your water surface can be done predictively as opposed to generatively through fractal iterations for example and hence things like encryption analysis can eventually be done in such ways too ect.
Great stuff to come in terms of potential but the risks to modern security are getting greater everywhere including the danger of zombie PC's.