Fear of Hacking

I think that the government and major corporations are not just afraid of what happens when a system is hacked. They are more afraid because they do not understand what has happened.

Much like being a vicitim of a crime without witnessing the event, ie burglary.

 

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we understand.. we are watching everything, we pay people for that kind of thing.. dont worry.. your posts and email are now being monitored.. big brotehr will get you

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Freeze.

Move away from the computer. Put up your hands, and stand facing the wall.

Do not move until ordered. Wait for further instructions.

*sounds of boots thudding toward you*

Big Brother will understand. Come, embrace the mercy of Big Brother. Embrace the love. You must love Big Brother.

*torture ensues*

 

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It's a security issue, plain and simple. For example, with the United States, data running across the SIPRNET* is classified as either Confidential or Secret. This includes information like military operations, unit status, resources status, military technology and research, etc. Obviously, the continued control of this information is intrinsic to national security. This applies to any nation you want to replace the US with in my example.

So the prosecution/punishment of criminal hackers is just maintenance of information security.

*Secret Internet Protocol Router Network - Basically a TCP/IP Global Area Network that functions identically to the internet, including web pages and all that cool stuff. It shares normal commercial backbones as well as dedicated buried fiber optic cables and satellite links. Everything's encrypted with 128 bit ciphers. You should see some of the stuff on there! Raytheon's SIPRNET homepage is sweet!

 

Ahh Strokes speaking of that when was the last time you had an eval?



"Deny everything....for nothing is really real anymore"

 

Once upon a time, someone said something about what would happen if you sealed 100 monkeys, all with typewriters in a room. Eventually they were suppose to evolve into writing a work of fiction that would be similar to any book you could point to off a book shelf.

I mention this because if your presented with a shack, a white walled building and a locked steal door, to which you can not enter, you mind will start to wonder.

You won't be able to get in the shack, you don't know whats in the shack but you will try to use what you have at your disposal to work out the shacks purpose and reason as to what could exist within it.

Now there could be many hundreds of thousands of incorrect assumptions, and many thousands of close ones, but eventually you will have someone that will work out what is exactly in that shack. (and it's not through some fudged up paranormal thing)

I'm mentioning this because no matter how much encryption, no matter where or how the information is transversed, someone will know with or without the use of surveillance equipment the content of the information being transfered.

It's a matter of infinite possibilities.

 

Haha, many years and beers since my last, as it happens!

 

never seen raytheons Sipr page...but i've seen plenty of others.

Being a CT i see alot

 

I think eventually is the key idea there... its like your chances of being struck by a meteor from outer space that has a small group of ancient alients singing and playing guitars like a small mariotchi band. SURE it COULD happen...but lets face it, it wont.

But you are right. It could and that's the inherent flaw in cryptology. I think thats where quantum encryption comes in. Sure someone can break it and read your message, BUT the idea then is to know about it fast enough to change passwords, change plans, etc. Knowledge is power. Sure you have knowledge of what I sent, but I have knowledge that you have knowledge, which makes me just a bit more in control...just a bit more powerful.

-AntonK