Hacking Threat to Tech, Cyberwar

[Arthur Hanson]

EMC Is Caught in the Crosshairs of a Cyberwar That Never Ends - Bloomberg Business

I found this to be an excellent article on an increasingly serious threat to the technology the world increasingly and critically relies on. This is to be taken seriously for it was one of the major causes that destroyed Nortel. We can't afford for the Net to literally be turned into a war zone.

 

[Daniel Payne]

Intel has a strategy to enhance security through multiple acquisitions:

• Sensory Networks, Sep 2013
• PasswordBox, Dec 2014
• McAfee, Aug 2010
• Mashery, Apr 2013

I agree that we as consumers are in the middle of a hacking war that just so happens to impact our identity, security and financial savings.

 

[Arthur Hanson]

Dan, as we all know, as with any practical knowledge now days, it has the shelf life of fruit and many knowledgeable people in many fields, say not even that. Security is the same way, a cat and mouse game. This is why I feel our outdated education and trainings systems have to change to a subscription basis. The world has changed and government which controls much of education and almost everything else is staffed mainly by people who thrive on security with rigid work rules, rigid pay, rigid medical, rigid retirement, rigid job security paid for by everyone else no matter how much they bleed us in taxes. If fact we literally have a pay for failure system that has become enshrined in our government. We haven't won any war since WW II and made many of the places we sent our military far worse than before. Like the totally failed drug war and war on poverty, they are more about bureaucracies that are main function is to survive and grow like a cancer. Just look at the California sales tax that has gone from 4% to 10% in most places, it not only increases with inflation, but has outrun inflation by 250% and we get less for it. To have true reform we have to bring government employees into the real world the rest of us live in. It's culture, not laws that make a society and with the world becoming more and more one, even this is changing.