This story popped up on my Facebook timeline.
It’s a Wall St. Journal article that will probably disappear under paywall. If you have a blockchain or bitcoin account, you will want to pay for the Wall St. Journal subscription and read this.
As system get more complex they get more fragile. That is definitely the case when it comes to computer and information systems. I found that out again last Friday. Now as of now, I don’t know if what happened to my main computer is a hard drive failure or a corrupted update. At this point it’s hard to tell and it’s going to be some work to figure out what. My big mistake this time was not making a Windows 10 boot disk.
https://www.xtremerain.com/fix-bad-system-config-info/
System failure can also be caused by malware and viruses though this has been less common as the security people have dealt with this sort of thing and if the data and files themselves are not wrecked, using a boot disk can get things running and work around the malware until things are running, anyway, here’s the week in ransomware.
Humans tend to believe that the same trends will continue in the same way regardless of circumstances. A trend will get everlastingly worse or better with nothing changing. The fact is that every trend is susceptible to outside factors. Here’s a case in point.
When the space program was started back in the beginning of the 1960’s how to guide the spacecraft in space was a complete unknown. The problem of calculating burns and orbital insertions was a nontrivial one. At the time all flight control had been analog and in 1960, the computers filled up buildings. When the call came to go to the moon, one thing was clear though. A computer small enough to fit on the spacecraft was going to be essential. That computer would be the Apollo Guidance Computer(AGC).
I was thinking about ATS systems and how they worked while cutting the lawn the other day and I had an insight about them that I don’t think that people appreciate. For a computer, there is no “maybe.” A computer is not a brain and the software program running defines everything as yes, or no.
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There is an old Roman saying; “Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?” It means, who will watch the watchers? It’s appropriate when considering the internet and the web. Heretofore the web standards and protocol development has been more or less a mutual agreement between interested parties who by and large had no real interest in doing anything that would create problems in real society. They just wanted to make their wonderful toy work. They were idealistic and didn’t really see the potentials of the dark side.
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Cybercrime is a symptom. It’s a symptom of the deep problems that the Progressive attempts to bring about a servile state in a world that is no longer compatible with the simplicity of a servile state economy create. The problem is Europe where most of the malware seem to emerge from is that too many young people are disenfranchised from opportunities to enrich their lives. Along with the fact that everything is controlled and entry into the engineering and technical field is dependent on getting into the right schools which are rigidly guarded and have incredibly strict entrance requirements. That’s followed by the fact that if you don’t have the right credentials, success is unlikely. So as the following shows, millions of young men are thrown into the tender mercies of the welfare state.
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Check out this archive of a search on twitter for “crypz.”
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I’ve been called an idiot in various venues by mostly it seems computer security types for this series and my insistence that more law enforcement is required. What these people don’t see is the bigger issues involved.
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The fact that they are young and inexperienced seems to work against them. They make mistakes. And get caught. The interesting thing is that, like a medieval castle under siege the dark net is most likely to break from the inside. What’s also amazing is that no matter how stupid the last guy was and how big the punishment, there’s always anew idiot ready and willing to step in and be the next guy on the “caught” list. One would think that the possibility of a lifetime relationship with “Bubba” and his friend and strict limitations on computer usage would be a huge deterrent. Apparently not.
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