Cyberwarfare: Challenge Of Tomorrow

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Computer hacking has become part of everyday life for the past few years as Internet-connected devices get been hacked left and right, but most times these are harmless, so-called “Internet of Things” appliances, like kettles or fridges.

But according to Boston-area hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, it is attacked about every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day, and the strikes come from everywhere: hacktivists, organized crime, terrorists and even MIT students.

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans deals with some kind of health record compromise, and most of the time they are completely unaware it happened. This means that criminals gain huge amounts of information about people, including their social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and even their personal health information. Many of these types of information are much more permanent than even credit card numbers, and last forever. And most of these hacker attacks occur due to the sheer number of vulnerabilities in the security systems of hospitals.

Why Journalists Shouldn’t Use Signal To Encrypt Conversations

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Recently we have heard praise for encrypted phone calls, namely, the application Signal by Open Whisper Systems, designed for iPhone and Android. While Signal is one option for cellular calls, we underscore that such tools frustrate mass surveillance, but do not protect users under targeted surveillance.

Ironically, much of the Signal praise comes from journalists, who are more likely to be targeted than average citizens. Every United States adult with a cellphone is subject to broad surveillance under “mass surveillance” programs, remaining anonymous until analysts retrieve their records. This is nothing new. Analysts, investigators, and law enforcement officers may target specific people, however, before calls are made, and there are several vulnerable behaviors—points of targeting—that make attacking encrypted voice data unnecessary. The same may be said for digital data entered by keyboard, keypad, and touchscreen—the modulations, radio waves, and power currents.

To be safe, communicating by cellular phones requires more planning than opening and using an application. And thinking further, alternative methods reduce risk significantly more than encrypted cellular calls. Our aim is to outline, very broadly, why we do not make encrypted phone calls and offer, perhaps in passing, but in good faith for people in our network and dark trades, one communication method that relieves risks in targeted surveillance cases.

Beating Surveillance: Typing Is The First Mistake

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The worst trait for a social movement is a Face for the movement. Personalizing an age, such as an age of surveillance, organizes, at the same time, a body for inspection — laying out the rows and columns in order. What has happened with “privacy” is a short list of public figures sponsor tools (often the same tools), and whether those tools are necessary to security becomes a minor problem. Here the humanities has a task: analyzing how we perceive a problem and how the perception is itself a problem.

To narrow this inquiry further, take professionals in journalism. The data security narrative has been that privacy is a science with rules for securing information. The matter is simply hiding information methods, and we need just wait for an authority to say, “Here are the rules [or an amendment to a rule].” Everyone behaves similarly. “Use PGP, Tails, Signal and Red Phone and VPN and OTR and F and G and H and J.”

This is the easy way out and the most dangerous perception of privacy issues. Notice how the movement functions: sharing technology tools in waves, starting from public figures and covering their followers in neat, succinct intervals. Government hunting expeditions are like firing from a helicopter into a field of buffalo. The buffalo run together in one direction.

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