The Internet of Hazards
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The piece discusses how even though we dodge the bullet on much of the "digital damage" reeked by things like ransomware and other exploits that there are only going to be more and more attacks.
The malware primarily strikes older versions of windows software and though most have replaced those with newer distros, there are still hold outs clinging to them as vestages of times gone by and memories of happier lives.
The unmistakable lesson of recent years is that the internet is a double-edged sword. Despite enormous benefits -- instant access to huge quantities of information, the proliferation of new forms of businesses, communications and entertainment -- it also encourages crime, global conflict and economic disruption. The drift seems ominous.As our dependence increases and continues on internetworking those out to have their way with you grow more able to exploit your existence and those risks will remain for years.
Robert Samuelson
America's Internet Delusion
realclearpolitics.com
May 22, 2017
The divergence of personal interest and national security is a chasm across with the typical end user is unaware. Those trecherous packets on the internet continue to circulate and we who are blissfully ignorant remain unaware and uncaring.
Couple this with the emerging technologies associated with the "internet of things" there remain virtually unlimited avenues for others to take what you have and remain untouchable by the unwary victims of their advancing predation.
The so-called "internet of hazards" remains a function of our deficiences in conjunction with that burgeoning addiction to technology ever present in the fray.