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photostill · 08-06-12, 18:38

I've said this since the first days after hearing about Stuxnet. Now someone else is picking up on it but for all the wrong reasons. This reasoning in the way it's worded comes more in the line of 'never let a good crisis go to waste'.

I'm gonna jump around here a bit before I settle down to the above. First let us look at what computers are doing to our life. The first computer was a university experiment that took a whole room full of vacuum tubed boards to set up a glorified calculator. It was created between the years 1940 and 1945 with a collaboration between Great Briton and the US.

Today's miniaturization and better manufacturing processes have led to it being shrunk down to something you can tote with you in your daily life and has multitudes of processing power over and beyond the first room sized computer. It continues to see advancements in processing power, lower power usage, and shrinking size.

It is now believed the day of Singularity is coming. Singularity is a concept made popular in Sci-fi circles where when you die your personality is uploaded to a computer. Your descendants at some point in the future will be able to ask a simulacrum of your personality questions and get answers based on your knowledge and experience. That it leads to the end of 'true death'. Obviously a virus or something of such nature would be a dire threat to such an ending.

Since Flame has been discovered, the controllers have sent out the kill signal, telling the malware to delete itself and vanish. I presume as a way of damage control to prevent more discovery into how it does what it does. It's far too late as the cat is already out of the bag and in the research lab.

The reason this is all a fake crisis, is that the business with the internet being the vehicle to be the kill switch on public utilities isn't really valid if they want to just stop such from happening. After all everything worked for years without internet and can do so again. Pull the plug on the internet and the threat is over. But that's not what is going on here.

What is going on, is that this perceived threat has gotten attention because the average citizen believes it could happen. Fear mongers have been successful in spreading the message and putting the results as something that could happen to the average citizen. The reason the FUD is spread, is there are all sorts of companies that would love to sell the government something else since the wars are winding down, to keep them in business. This is tailor made for just such actions.

It is only a threat if it is allowed to be one.

08-06-12, 18:38	#2
photostill The Enigma Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 9,977 Thanks: 3,009 Thanked 1,524 Times in 928 Posts	Re: End of the world as we know it’: Kaspersky warns of cyber-terror apocalypse I've said this since the first days after hearing about Stuxnet. Now someone else is picking up on it but for all the wrong reasons. This reasoning in the way it's worded comes more in the line of 'never let a good crisis go to waste'. I'm gonna jump around here a bit before I settle down to the above. First let us look at what computers are doing to our life. The first computer was a university experiment that took a whole room full of vacuum tubed boards to set up a glorified calculator. It was created between the years 1940 and 1945 with a collaboration between Great Briton and the US. Today's miniaturization and better manufacturing processes have led to it being shrunk down to something you can tote with you in your daily life and has multitudes of processing power over and beyond the first room sized computer. It continues to see advancements in processing power, lower power usage, and shrinking size. It is now believed the day of Singularity is coming. Singularity is a concept made popular in Sci-fi circles where when you die your personality is uploaded to a computer. Your descendants at some point in the future will be able to ask a simulacrum of your personality questions and get answers based on your knowledge and experience. That it leads to the end of 'true death'. Obviously a virus or something of such nature would be a dire threat to such an ending. Since Flame has been discovered, the controllers have sent out the kill signal, telling the malware to delete itself and vanish. I presume as a way of damage control to prevent more discovery into how it does what it does. It's far too late as the cat is already out of the bag and in the research lab. The reason this is all a fake crisis, is that the business with the internet being the vehicle to be the kill switch on public utilities isn't really valid if they want to just stop such from happening. After all everything worked for years without internet and can do so again. Pull the plug on the internet and the threat is over. But that's not what is going on here. What is going on, is that this perceived threat has gotten attention because the average citizen believes it could happen. Fear mongers have been successful in spreading the message and putting the results as something that could happen to the average citizen. The reason the FUD is spread, is there are all sorts of companies that would love to sell the government something else since the wars are winding down, to keep them in business. This is tailor made for just such actions. It is only a threat if it is allowed to be one. __________________ You can help this site, by clicking on the link below to buy a Premium Account. & Thank you for helping us. Click;