Digital Information "Security"
Last Updated on Thursday, March 11 2010 21:23
The term "digital security" is an oxymoron.
Digital information by it's nature is changeable. Flip a bit and suddenly Tuesday's Wednesday. If you can convince everyone (using, I dunno, shiny iPhones, Crackberries, laptops, etc) to store their knowledge and identity digitally, you can effectively control history, and therefore people and the future, just as completely as Orwell's "memory hole".
Information storage is designed to be malleable, and the networks knowledge flows across is designed to be completely trackable.
Digital information by it's nature is changeable. Flip a bit and suddenly Tuesday's Wednesday. If you can convince everyone (using, I dunno, shiny iPhones, Crackberries, laptops, etc) to store their knowledge and identity digitally, you can effectively control history, and therefore people and the future, just as completely as Orwell's "memory hole".
Information storage is designed to be malleable, and the networks knowledge flows across is designed to be completely trackable.
Any "hacker" who thinks they know better doesn't understand the nature of digital data and networks, or the spirit DARPA created them in.
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