I think Putin is done with Trump because he knows Trump can't accomplish anything - no sense having a puppet thats useless. I'm wondering if Trump will try and play it in his favor and start saying if he doesn't get another term Russia will be able to hack into Americas power grid because he is the only person that can stop Russia from doing that because he has such a good relationship with Putin. Cheers!
This post was edited by Nanoose at June 19, 2019 8:50 PM MDT
Given the rising threats around the world of hostile governments disrupting public services and utilities via the Internet, when are such services going to start really protecting themselves? How?
It can only mean relying on the Internet far less, and breaking the stranglehold on the Internet held by just a few huge monopolies whose enforced standardising makes life far easier for the attackers.
For the most critical parts of the system, this could mean for example dedicated telephone-lines, non-"standard" computer operating-systems; high-level encryption with re-set frequently but irregularly; robust automatic switching to manual or semi-manual control; much more off-line working. These on top of the safeguards we already know - software that traps unwanted programme files, users avoiding unsolicited links and suspicious e-messages, etc; organisations' IT departments monitoring Internet use and traffic.
Also a return to more judicious use of facsimile or letter-post (national mail or couriers) for sending sensitive information from place to place; and voice-telephony for normal operational matters of low sensitivity. The spurious "immediacy" of e-post is thanks only to its extremely rapid transmission time, but has led to a lot of people being desperately impatient, forgetting that time is usually far less the essence than imagined IF the organisation is run efficiently.
"Speed" and "efficiency" of the two areas, administration and control, under cyber-attack threat - can mutually be co-operative or destructive, and they are not synonyms. Further, there is a big and significant difference between "important" and "urgent". A matter is "urgent" only when a genuine emergency - fire, flood, accident, major plant failure or indeed criminal attack including hacking. However, a departmental or client meeting, for example, might be "important", but is not "urgent" in normal operations when everything is working properly.
At national level, it needs somehow to institute very rapid detection and blocking of attacks, and tracing of course: ALL Internet communications are traceable to source region or country, perhaps even device; though how much that would help is another matter.
Sometimes I wonder if - and I hope it never comes - World War Three won't have many physical casualties and destroyed buildings, because its preferred weapon will not be bullets and bombs, but just strings of ones and noughts....
Nanoose 