Computers have been changing the face of the world as we know it for quite a few decades now. Compare all of the things you do now on a computer to what you used to do manually or through a professional.
For example, I bet you used to go to the bank to do banking? These days most banking is electronic; most money is electronic.
Computers are being used more and more in the everyday lives of average citizens.
Just like with anything that people don’t understand, fear has started to build over this. From the perspective of people who do not understand computers very well, computers are taking over and could destroy us.
Others are able to see that the fear shouldn't be of the machines itself, but those out there who could potentially use them maliciously. Which is even more terrifying to the general public.
The bad guys are real and they have technology we don’t understand? Clearly the end must be near.
Cyberwarfare is real. Obviously, we should be protecting ourselves against attacks from other nations especially considering our global political standing, but are we focusing too much on it?
According to the article Cyberwar vs. Cybercrime: Assessing the Feds' Priorities in Battling the Bad Guys we might be approaching this wrong.
Apparently we should be more concerned about attacks from within our own nation. Rather than putting all of our money, publicity and priorities into building up our military's Cyber Command we should be giving law enforcement these technologies and building up our defenses against ourselves.
The article suggests that there is a clear and present danger from our own criminal element.
Other articles even state that there was a decline in the number of "terrorist" cyber attacks in the past year.
Meanwhile there is actually a bigger threat from American cyber criminals attacking us. So why does this get less coverage?
I don’t know. I do know that it shouldn’t be so easily over looked. Honestly I am more worried about the acne ridden teenager in his basement with the anarchy poster and a computer than a middle-eastern terrorist.
Maybe the government should be too.
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