Cyberthreats: Real or Disinformation?
July 12, 2010
A real case can be made for the fact the military is taking a page from 1984 and banging the drums of our fears. That according to Bruce Schneier in a recent column on the CNN Opinion page.
He makes a case the military and government are fighting a seesaw battle over all the hyperbole surrounding the misuse of the prefix ‘cyber’. Schneier provides a few convincing examples making us wonder if in the case of ‘cyber security’ Orwell was right.
The case is made terms like cyber Armageddon and cyber war are inflammatory and nothing to worry about . At least not right now. To quote the article. “ Words have meaning and metaphors matter.”
Can anyone else remember before the military was prompting us with cyber war and the agenda was being controlled, a time when another fine piece of writing warned us about the dangers of believing ‘War is Peace?’ and similar philosophies? Information or disinformation?
Rob Starr, July 12, 2010
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