“THE SECRET CYBER WAR” with George Noory Gaiamtv Wednesday Jan 8 2014
While many of us may be struggling to keep up with technological advancements, others are strongly motivated to keep up with these changes. Some are contriving new ways to compromise your security and privacy while others are determined to stop these unwarranted cyber attacks. John McAfee gives us a peek into the secret cyber war as he recounts his multiple successes and offers us a glimpse of what lies just beyond tomorrow’s horizon in this interview with George Noory .
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February 1, 2014 at 6:32 am
By no means I have the authority to preach or present my opinions, findings, or conclusios as facts for others to follow. Follow you heart at what you do. Or, do whatever you want for Christ sake! 🙂 So, apart from that, I wanted to say two things here.
As someone said earlier here, the fight between Good and Evil is endless on this planet Earth. The main reason is that the human brain is an intelligent tool, yet not perfect at all. Those imperfections, flaws, and dead-end wirings then make up for all the imperfections, flaws, and dead-end solutions there are in the society. Don’t expect the Evil to end; this is yet another unintelligent assumption. An answer in itself.
On the other hand, does anything material prevent us from trying to be nice, to see things on the bright side, and do good instead of giving up on being nice, seeing things on the bright side, and not doing good? Not, at least I don’t think so, but again, don’t take my words for granted! 🙂
People in power are not in power (over others) for no reason. They all know what I just said but they are scrupulous enough to take advantage of such knowledge. That is their choice, I guess. Others could spread the knowledge of not having those inhibitions to doing good things in their own way.
Let me give an example from the everyday life. I was facing a dillemma. To give away some clothes to the charity. I am not rich, those clothes I had attachment to, and wanted to give them away only on the condition that the charity would profit from such donations. I categorically refused to donate those clothes to charity if their respective cashier (or whoever was there serving at the time when I would hand my clother over to them), decided to keep those clothes for himself or herself. That wouldn’t be fair, would it? That would defy the reason for why I wanted to donate in the first place, wouldn’t it? But then I realized something important… If that particular greedy person takes those clothes from that donation and keeps them for him or herself, the be it! The underlying morale here is that there will be a good benefit for that dishonest cashier. He will profit as a person and have some benefit from it because he was in need. If that created a benefit in his life, then such donation, albeit mishandled, was still worth doing.
January 7, 2014 at 2:10 am
The battle between good and evil accompanies us for thousands of years. At some point of our long history on Earth, someone ends up becoming victim of one of the branches of evil: violence.
It is hard to imagine when it will end. But we can imagine when start to struggle for a world without violence and insecurity.
RIGHT NOW!
Why should we wait the violence to continue leaving more and more victims to each day with marks that no one can erase?
Years ago, I suffered a robbery attempt in Brazil and as the thief, 10 years old, had given up commit the crime, I quickly forgot this incident. This became an example of the free 24 hours service protection that the Creator has given to me. It was something that I share to friends as an interesting fact.
Years ago I was victim of a racker. He broke into my old email account and sent emails to all of my contact list talking about Viagra. And that was what I knew, I do not know what else he did. But I remember so well how much I felt fragile and vulnerable. I well remember the useless attempts to change my passwords and to prevent him to invade again my email account that I had since 2003. I seemed to be groping in the dark. And I never forgot this incident. I felt ashamed of myself and just told about it to a few friends. Being the victim of a hacker is the same feeling of being raped.
When we can see the face of who attacks us, it is up to us know how we react and what justifications we give to what happened. But when who attacks us does not have a face or identity, what we should to do?
Do mention that they exist and expect to the government protect us? When?
Of a window in anywhere place, I see boys and they have 11 years old and they are holding a pistol in his hand and firing to up. I can hear the sounds of gunshots and at that moment I already know that some young man was murdered. I already know the difference between a revolver and a semi automatic pistol. I see 9 year old boys and they are smoking crack and marijuana while people are walking normally.
This is the picture of a giant country that will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and these are criminals that has a face and an identity and they have an excuse for that life of crime: “we are the result of the inability of the government” or “we are gangsters”.
But what about a hacker? What motivates him? What are your reasons? Are these: “Yeah, I do it because it’s fun to scare people or to steal their money” or “I’m an idiot with a small d*%* and I do it because I can not get a real woman”?
Most of these rackers have not a routine of violence equal to Brazil. If they knew what is the real danger, they would not hide behind a computer monitor. Who is courageous, shows the face. And who is cowardly, is self titled as a hacker.
What is the difference between a man holding a gun against the head of a citizen and an intelligent man who breaks into computers and systems with the intention of having an own benefit?
Both are scaring and leaving marks on their victims. Both believe that they are invincible and that the law can not reach them. So who will have the courage to take such an important step and turn our second or third home a safer place?
This is the opportunity of a man, whose name was synonymous with security, show the world the power of his creation.