Thursday, June 2, 2011

WE'VE BEEN HACKED!: WAR MUST BE DECLARED!

Just as new viruses keep showing up, hackers develop new ways to steal into sites.Anyone who has a virus  prevention program knows how often the data is updated sometimes several times a day.  This means, every time a new way of intruding or dropping stuff on someone else's computer is thought up, someone else has to find a way to prevent it.

It used to be that hackers hacked as simply as mountain climbers climbed, 'because it is there.  However, to day it is not the same as kids shooting out street lights.  Today real crimes are being committed with extraordinary financial costs and losses.. And, today, , because of the massive costs it has required of some businesses, it can no longer be viewed as a prank.  The US Pentagon has decided to treat cyber hacks as acts of war.

To see the mouse and the elephant comparison in this crime, the article linked above stated:  "The worst cyber-attack against the US military occurred in 2008, when malicious software on a flash drive commandeered computers at US Central Command."

While our constitution was a very good basic plan in its time,  modern advances in technology of today require new rules. This is in conflict with the current House of Representatives and Republican State legislatures who are not only trying to stop all abortions but are also trying to do away with contraception by defining a human back to any fertilization of an egg.  Thus we have the American Christian-Taliban right here in our beloved USA.  Where will they stop or be stopped?

Adam Brookes wrote for the BBC:  "American strategists are wrestling with the big, new questions of cyber war. What constitutes cyber attack? What laws, definitions and principles should governments use to formulate their response?'  Do you think we Americans  could possibly elect a group of people willing  to make their goals reasonably attend to the goals and wishes of the majority of their constituents?