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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 08:07 AM Nov 2013

EXPERT: Internet For Our Kids To Be 'Fundamentally Less Awesome'

http://www.businessinsider.com/expert-internet-for-our-kids-to-be-fundamentally-less-awesome-2013-11



The Internet has become an increasingly dangerous place and this may only be the beginning, asserts Jay Healey, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at Atlantic Council.

"I am gravely doubtful that our kids and grandkids are going to have an Internet and cyber space that is fundamentally as awesome as the one that we had," he said. "It's probably going to be less free, less secure, and less resilient than the one that we had."

Through a combination of espionage and complex cyber weapons, the Pentagon has succeeded in militarizing the Internet at breakneck speed. The risks of this arms race are not just the obliteration of Internet anonymity, but the opening of a Pandora's Box in which relatively cheap weapons can do ridiculous amounts of real-world destruction.

"In cyberspace, criminal organizations, activists such as Anonymous and other private groups, as well as the odd lone hacker, have already displayed disruptive power. Terrorist groups are surely not far behind," wrote The New Yorker's Stevel Coll last year.



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EXPERT: Internet For Our Kids To Be 'Fundamentally Less Awesome' (Original Post) xchrom Nov 2013 OP
Scare mongering at its finest. RC Nov 2013 #1
John Brunner wrote a fantastic novel in 1975 beachbum bob Nov 2013 #2
You cannot expect a world-wide system of access to be both open and secure. randome Nov 2013 #3
Moot point. Our robot overlords will have taken control by then anyway. Alkene Nov 2013 #4
I think I read this article on AOL back in 1994... Scootaloo Nov 2013 #5
Ha. They can't cage this beast. alphafemale Nov 2013 #6
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
1. Scare mongering at its finest.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 08:12 AM
Nov 2013

Declare the Internet dangerous as an excuse to heavily regulate and censer it.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
2. John Brunner wrote a fantastic novel in 1975
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 08:37 AM
Nov 2013

that pretty much foretold the advent of the internet and the control of information>>> The Shockwave Rider. Brunner even described what he term "computer worm".

Read this book

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
3. You cannot expect a world-wide system of access to be both open and secure.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 08:37 AM
Nov 2013

Those are two diametrically opposed ideals. You can push the pendulum temporarily one way or the other but it will always swing back.
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Alkene

(752 posts)
4. Moot point. Our robot overlords will have taken control by then anyway.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:23 AM
Nov 2013

It's already too late; robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel!

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
6. Ha. They can't cage this beast.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:49 AM
Nov 2013

There's always Dark Net.

And there will be a Darker Net beyond that...if needed.

Freedom of the human mind began with the printing press.

And Ham Radio. Some simple circuitry and the antenna. Twist the dial and speak to the world.



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