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Are we headed for civil war in cyber space? This is the kind of bs that starts to wake people up.

pdkl95 11y ago
It's been a cold civil war for many years. Encryption - and communication technology in general - is a power usable by anybody, not just established institutions. As Dan Geer explains: In other words, [c]onvergence is an inevitable consequence of the very power of cyberspace in and of itself. [I]ncreasingly powerful, location independent technology in the hands of the many will tend to force changes in the distribution of power. In fact, that is the central theme of this essay -- that the power that is growing in the net, per se, will soon surpass the ability of our existing institutions to modify it in any meaningful way, so either the net must be broken up into governable chunks or the net becomes government. It seems to me that the leverage here favors cyberspace whenever and wherever we give cyberspace a monopoly position, which we are doing that blindly and often. In the last couple of years, I've found that institutions that I more or less must use [...] no longer accept paper letter instructions, they each only accept digital delivery of such instructions. This means that each of them has created a critical dependence on an Internet swarming with men in the middle and, which is more, they have doubtlessly given up their own ability to fall back to what worked for a century before. It is that giving up of alternative means that really defines what convergence is and does. It is said that all civil wars are about on whose terms re-unification will occur. I would argue that we are in, to coin a phrase, a Cold Civil War to determine on whose terms convergence occurs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=2824 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=2824 http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt (section "10. Convergence")
johnchristopher 11y ago
No, hunger and intolerable cruelty is what wake people up.

It's been a cold civil war for many years. Encryption - and communication technology in general - is a power usable by anybody, not just established institutions. As Dan Geer explains: In other words, [c]onvergence is an inevitable consequence of the very power of cyberspace in and of itself. [I]ncreasingly powerful, location independent technology in the hands of the many will tend to force changes in the distribution of power. In fact, that is the central theme of this essay -- that the power that is growing in the net, per se, will soon surpass the ability of our existing institutions to modify it in any meaningful way, so either the net must be broken up into governable chunks or the net becomes government. It seems to me that the leverage here favors cyberspace whenever and wherever we give cyberspace a monopoly position, which we are doing that blindly and often. In the last couple of years, I've found that institutions that I more or less must use [...] no longer accept paper letter instructions, they each only accept digital delivery of such instructions. This means that each of them has created a critical dependence on an Internet swarming with men in the middle and, which is more, they have doubtlessly given up their own ability to fall back to what worked for a century before. It is that giving up of alternative means that really defines what convergence is and does. It is said that all civil wars are about on whose terms re-unification will occur. I would argue that we are in, to coin a phrase, a Cold Civil War to determine on whose terms convergence occurs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=2824 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=2824 http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt (section "10. Convergence")

johnchristopher 11y ago

No, hunger and intolerable cruelty is what wake people up.