HOPES AND TERRORS OF 2009

Here are 10 reasons to be hopeful about 2009 and 3 to be terrified. As long as there are people who believe their God is the right one, all other beliefs wrong; as long as people think like George W. Bush, "You are either with me or against me." there will be no true peace in the world. Now that the Bush Administration has taken away our power of money with which to bargain outside the US and care for those less fortunate, we no longer have credibility in the world, our reputation as principled and humane people gone, we have much to be worried about for our future.

Catherine Brahic wrote on 20 March 2008, in NewScientist, about 25 environmental threats of the future. She started by saying, "Forget genetically modified crops - the great environmental concerns of the future should be nanomaterials, manmade viruses and biomimetic."
robots.

Deforestation in the Amazon is of great concern. Biodefense and Biosecurity are and should be major issues. However, if terror juices you up outside the theater, you should check out this site. It is feared that cellphones will become part of botnets. We have already reached 15% of all online computers computers infected. It is being predicted that cybercrime will continue to thrive. It is already terrifying to me that so many entities can come into my comp[uter as they please. It is as shocking as it once was to me to learn how many billions of critters live within our bodies and I can do nothing about it. Most think it is only a matter of time until VOIP (Voice Operated Internet Protocol)systems are taken over.

CSO Security and Risk tells us 10 things that won't happen in 2009.
1. Organizations will pay greater attention to security.
2. IT security spending will increase
3. Employees will use IT with greater security awareness
4. Employees will not fall for phishing and social engineering attacks
5. Employees will pay attention to company security policies
6. Facebook will be forgotten
7. They will not open files from people they don't know
8. Company devices and data will be never be lost again
9. Vulnerabilities and threat vectors will decrease
10. You will have an easy life.

Now that unemployment has risen beyond the charts, maybe employees will see that the employer is privileged rarely to have one of them; salary is paid for performance on the job, not appearance at the job. Follow the rules and RTFM might even be something acceptable once again as work protocol.