Books by HEDI ENGHELBERG
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CIBERTERRORISMO 2003-2010 | PUBLICADO EN CARACAS, VENEZUELA 2003, 2003
[CYBERTERRORISMO] - CONSIDERACIONES BÁSICAS Y GENERALES-
ESTUDIO POLÍTICO: LA EVOLUCIÓN Y LA TRAS... more [CYBERTERRORISMO] - CONSIDERACIONES BÁSICAS Y GENERALES-
ESTUDIO POLÍTICO: LA EVOLUCIÓN Y LA TRASFORMACIÓN DEL TERRORISMO MUNDIAL Y DEL INTERNET AL CYBER FRAUDE, AL CRIMEN CIBERNÉTICO, AL CYBER CONTROL Y A LAS GUERRAS CIBERNÉTICAS MODERNAS.
“EVERYBODY KNOWS NOW EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE. WE ARE EXPOSED” | “Debemos considerar el terrorismo como el uso de la muerte como arma política”. Hedi Enghelberg |
EMPEZADO EN 1999, ESTE LIBRO ES UNO DE LOS PRIMEROS PUBLICADOS (2001-2003) SOBRE (ENTONCES, CASI INCIPIENTE) ESTE FLAGELLO DEL CYBER TERRORISMO/CRIUME/FRAUD/WAR, HOY UNAS REALE DIMENSIONES DEL ESPACIO POLITICO, SOCIAL, ECONOMICO Y MILITAR DE NUESTRA EPOCA.
[ NOTA DEL AUTOR: COMO APOYO ACADEMICO, OFRECEMOS ESTE LIBRO EN ESPANOL DE MANERA GRATUITA, PARA LOS ESTUADIANTES DE BACHILLERATO, UNDERGRADUATES, GRADUATES Y PARA LOS ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS DE MAESTRIA Y DOCTORADO. LIBRO EN ESPANOL CON ALGUNAS ANOTACIONES EN INGLES.]
“EVERYBODY KNOWS NOW EVERYTHING,
EVERYWHERE, ANYTIME.
WE ARE EXPOSED!” | HEDI ENGHELBERG
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EVERYWHERE, ANYTIME.
WE ARE EXPOSED!” | HEDI ENGHELBERG
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"SOCIAL MEDIA IN TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR"
CYBER WARS, CYBER ESPIONAGE, CYBER FRAUD, CYBER CRIME, PROPAGANDA AND DECEPTION WARS.
CYBER CONTROL OF INFORMATION FROM THE UNIVERSAL POINT-OF-VIEW OF THE PROCESS AND IT’S USES IN TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR.
P O L I T I C A L S T U D Y, B R I E F I N G - W H I T E P A P E R
VOLUME III: THIRD VOLUME IN THE CYBER TERRORISM SERIES
ELECTRONIC & DIGITAL EDITION | VERSION 1.0
ISBN 978-1-60585-126-6
December 2014 | MMXIV
This is a fragment of the full book format due to be published Digital Format (e-Book) in December 2014
"Over half a century ago, Winston Churchill called World War II’s emerging Electronic Warfare Tec... more "Over half a century ago, Winston Churchill called World War II’s emerging Electronic Warfare Technologies the “Wizard War.” Today, the Wizard War has moved to the Internet! And we call it: Info War, Cyber Warfare, Cyber Espionage, Industrial espionage, cyber fraud or simply Cyber Terrorism!
Wars have been waged since the beginning of human history. Humanity has witnessed much from the first rather symbolic and cruel biblical war between Cain and Abel to the most technological one that was the Second Lebanon war and - Iraqi War of March/April 2003. The world has gone through two great world wars and over 250 conventional and peripheral wars only in the last ninety years since 1914.
Secret Services and information operations have existed for over 3,000 years. The construction of strongholds in nearby hills (castors) was adopted as basic strategy from the Romans. This site was the zone’s focal military point. We have seen the same strategies used by the greatest military strategists throughout history, from Sparta, Alexander the Great, Pompeii, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, through Napoleon, Wellington, Allenby, World Wars I and WW II up to the ultra-modern wars of the Six Days, Yom Kippur, the Falklands, the 1990 Iraqi War, the 2002 Afghanistan War, the 2003 Iraqi War Second Lebanon War and the immense weight that information and secret operations have in succeeding in battle and war.
Wars are fought for economic, religious, political, cultural or social causes. There is one common characteristic to all wars: they bring forth modernity and new weapons. (Nitkin)
In the development of nations, a common characteristic of prosperity has been modernity, economic wealth and justice.
Modernity, economic wealth and justice are characteristic of the prosperity experienced by developed nations. “Modern society’s overall dependence upon information technology and communications systems…brings new threats to the society that it is, in other ways, benefiting” according to Furnell and Warren in “Computer Hacking and Cyber Terrorism: The real threats in the new Millennium?”
Modernity is resisted for several reasons, but particularly for cultural and religious ones. The democratization of modernity and technology leads directly towards intellectual emancipation and social change. Such change and resistance to change towards new socio-political orders have brought about wars.
A new form of resistance to change, modernity and democracy appeared towards the end of the twentieth century: fundamentalism. In order to impose itself on society, fundamentalism resorted to the only weapon it had at its disposal: terrorism. It is cheap, abundant and easy to employ. The return on terrorism (ROT) is at least 1: 100 for suicide bombings targeting people and social gatherings or 1:250,000 for economic targets.
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THE TIME.
THE ROOM WITH A RED PAINTING.
An Essay About Time, Consciousness, Experience and Mem... more THE TIME.
THE ROOM WITH A RED PAINTING.
An Essay About Time, Consciousness, Experience and Memory.
The Relation Between Human Experience, Brain, Memory and Consciousness.
Time Travel From The Room With A Red Painting.
Space and Human Experience. A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.
Papers by HEDI ENGHELBERG
THE ROOT COUSE of the Anti-Semitism is a very, very complex formula, with religious elements, mix... more THE ROOT COUSE of the Anti-Semitism is a very, very complex formula, with religious elements, mixed with economics, cultural inequalities, social conjecture, philosophical in nature, related to human relations, geography, location, traditions, etc. Anti-Semitism differs from region to region, from community to community. Anti-Semitism continually evolved into many branches over period of more than two thousand years.
“…As it goes with Israel, so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us…” | Eric Hoffer, May 1968.
BLACKBERRY 1999-2015, From 50% in USA, 20% Global Market share to 0.5% Market Share in 15 Years.
SHORT ESSAY
Blackberry was an innovation and a surprisingly smart device; was an elegant and ... more SHORT ESSAY
Blackberry was an innovation and a surprisingly smart device; was an elegant and sleek artifact with a real keyboard, could access internet, send and receive emails and securely exchange messages. Was a spectacular fall from 50% in USA and 20% global market share, to only 0.5% global market share in 15 years. Once a cornerstone of the smart devices with more than 50% North American market share and the very first model of smart phones, email, text and internet access, long before iPhone, BlackBerry now commands only 0.5% or less of the market.
It was the North American brutal, no-prisoneers, Silicon Valley competition or bad RIM corp decisions? It was the paramount financial power of Apple vs a company that never was really strong financially, better said, under-financed. It was the insistence in a physical keyboard vs a larger screen and a digital keyboard? It was the large American telcos, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobiles, power play?
Before the movie "BlackBerry" (a 2023 director Matt Johnson's Canadian movie, a biographical drama film from a script by Johnson and producer Matthew Miller), this 2015 article was the only published material to deal with the rise and the fall, the real sad drama and collapse of a "darling" of the Canadian tech industry: THE RISE AND FALL OF A STATE-OF-THE-ART DEVICE, A TITAN OF MOBILITY AND SMART COMMUNICATIONS, BLACKBERRY 1999 - 2015.
IN EVERY COUNTRY OF THE WORLD there are numberless imbalances in this relation of privacy-securit... more IN EVERY COUNTRY OF THE WORLD there are numberless imbalances in this relation of privacy-security and government (big brother) reach and insight. No country is a true and absolute example to follow, because each faced different threads, have different demographics, different history, traditions, laws, different economy size. But each country can bring a small solution to the/this big problem: how to work out privacy vs. security.
Key Words: mobility, social mobility, smart devices, adaptability, versatility, internet, social ... more Key Words: mobility, social mobility, smart devices, adaptability, versatility, internet, social media, jobs, technology, robots, AI.
*Before time started to be recorded and time events measured, about 6,000 years ago, at the same time we have started to grow potatoes, we were deemed nomads; people moving between pastures, roaming from place to place, traveling from an area to another area. A nomadic person moves around for gathering food and other resources. Now, being politically correct, we have replaced the archaic word “nomad” with the modern term “mobile”.
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Modernity, oh, modernity, welcome, we embrace you!
Unlike the phones lines, newspaper and radio... more Modernity, oh, modernity, welcome, we embrace you!
Unlike the phones lines, newspaper and radio/TV, which are services that have to be purchased and maintained under some type of contractual structure, Internet access have become a fundamental right and access to it is mandatory. THE SMART PHONE DEVICES & AI will make any social movement, any revolution, depend deeply on the messages the people, the very actors of the social event are constantly interchanging. The speed of the information communication is of essence, not so much the content. The veracity of the information exchanged via Social Media can be later challenged or validated. See the electronic messages of the social movements in Baltimore, New York and Ferguson: some were true to the essence of the events; some were fabricated and manipulated by the actors. In electronic media, everything can be manipulated: fast and with a minimum of effort.
Combine this with AI and have a "perfect storm"!
> KEYWORDS: MODERNITY, REVOLUTIONS, INTERNET, TELECOM, SMART PHONES, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, ELECTRONIC MEDIA, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, CYBER TERRORISM, TERRORISM OVER THE INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA IN TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR, BOOKS & ARTICLES BY HEDI ENGHELBERG
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Briefing on Cyber Terrorism No. 1043
NEW CONCEPT:
CYBER TERRORISM CONVERGENCE ®
Cyber terroris... more Briefing on Cyber Terrorism No. 1043
NEW CONCEPT:
CYBER TERRORISM CONVERGENCE ®
Cyber terrorism convergence it’s a new trend in the worldwide terrorist activities. Due to the nature of the digital media, they are using now the entire spectrum, in means of technology, hardware and software. One device, for example, like a smart phone, or a laptop can collect, generate files of sound, images, film and transmit them over (via radio waves) Internet, to be posted on a web site , as files or messages on social networks (see www.twitter.com).
Using convergence, the terrorist are melting and interlocking all the resources of computers, information technology, digital media, telecom, LAN, WIFI, publishing & editing software into generating content that will be broadcasted via Internet. This content or pocket of information as then retransmitted, for free by the media outlets, via newspapers, magazines, radio, television, web based news outlet, transformed into a certain type* of news and entertainment. Certain Type refers to the nature of damage it produces in the public option view, even if the military value is close to nothing.
Standard Example: the June 2009 message of the President Obama and his speech to the Muslim World, from Cairo University coincided with the near perfect timing of Osama bin Laden message, from an obscure cave in the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. If this message (unpolished and with poor audio quality), published somewhere in Internet, have not been broadcasted (for free and at a precise time) by satellite news network Al Jazeera and rebroadcasted by the rest of the news network, translates, interpreted, re transmitted, discussed, it will just faded way in the immense electronic traffic generated by Internet.
The trend (electronic media convergence) is dominated by:
• Hardware, like super smart devices, phones and laptops.
• Internet access, via telecom, Wi-Fi and Wimax, This complex process is complimented by media researched, (data mining), Internet based software, social networking, targeted media (object-based media).
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Briefing on Cyber Terrorism No. 1053
NEW CONCEPT:
CYBER TERRORISM MARKETING ®
Now, new tactics are in place, as ideas and technology melt, and we are talking about CYBER TERRORISM MARKETING ® and TERRORISM MARKETING ® more than a direct terrorism attack.
ONE HAS TO APPLY GLOBAL STRATEGIES AND ENHANCES TACTICAL PROCEDURES TO FIGHTS THESE TRENDS AND PRECISION DELIVERY WEAPON OF THIS ASYMMETRIC TYPE OF WAR, WHICH IS CYBER TERRORISM. The terrorist’s networks (+ its associates) are now savvy marketing specialists with professional knowledge in psychology. They are technology experts, mass media projectors and future analyst. The object of terrorist analyze is behavior, perception, conversational marketing, body language, responsive environment, future emotion presumes, mass media mixes and cocktails, multi-sensory marketing, new flavors of sub-conscious advertise.
Banking is already a feature on a smart device. In a short time even credit card transactions over VoIP prone lines will be possible, so a full spectrum of services will be available from a smart phone, the center of convergence.
Al Qaeda as a doctrine. Al Qaeda is now (has transformed and evolved into) a doctrine, more than a cohered and effective fighting force, as communism doctrine was during the Cold War, and it have to be engaged in this very strategic level. One of the fuels that feed terrorism and extremism is the continuing coverage of the Western and Arab media of the Al Qaeda type (franchise) discourse.
They (Western media) provide a wide platform the broadcasting of this doctrine, the largest one in the history of mankind. With this kind of wide broadcasting, every message, every argument, every speech is heard and received everywhere, and stored, for replays and references. Al Qaeda is transforming into a symbol and it’s a franchised model to be adapted and (always) improved, with new technologies as cyber terrorism (an asymmetric war weapon) where marketing and technology convergence is a much needed and desired broadcasting tool.
MAJOR NEW OUTLETS SELF CENSURE OF THE TERRORISM COVERAGE HAVE TO BE FACTORED IN. The media are careering out the terrorist agenda and propaganda. As “loose lips sinks ships”, as well loose media coverage of terrorist proclamations serves the very purpose of the proclamation: to be proclaimed and broadcasted. If no news about Al Qaeda & Co. will be broadcasted, then the state agencies and institutions can better handle the terrorism flagella. This is not limiting the free speech, but merely a tactic and strategy in this asymmetric war: cyber terrorism.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: The media coverage, the Taliban terrorist marketing and the lessons of the example of the kidnapping of Sargent. Gilad Shalit (captured by Hamas, Gaza, Israel, 2006; released in Oct. 2011, in exchange for 1,047 convicted Palestinian terrorist) versus Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl (captured by Taliban, Afghanistan)
Cyber terrorism/ Cyber warfare works on two main fronts:
• The economical front, trying to mine and undermine the economical life of the opponent, causing disruptions in the economical, social and in some cases, even military operations.
• The propaganda front, using Internet as a platform to spread propaganda, doctrines of hate, provide training manuals, arguments and information and a tool to reach people and groups all over the world.
THE TERRORISTS KNOW THAT IS EASIER TO REINFORCE A PERCEPTION THAN CREATE A NEW ONE and they use the mass media and convergence to this end. Al Qaeda opened the way with the explosive and deadly demonstration of 9/11. It provided in the 90’ and early 2000’ the structure and the doctrine for the fighting against the infidels. It may fade away, but new flavors will emerge, and the technology convergence will be the platform to spread away the new doctrines and schools of thoughts.
NOTE: The Cyber Terrorism it's a form/type of asymmetric war, using media convergence, computers, internet and smart devices (with access to internet). Given the difficulty of monitoring, tracing and forensic analyze of the telecom, digitals VoIP, social sites and communications in Internet (read cyber space and networks) we want to make the strong case that he actual web space/internet (with all its marketing tools, telecom and media) are an essential and sine-qua-non tool for extremists and terrorists worldwide.________________________________________
THE EVOLUTION AND THE FIGHTS AGAINST CYBER TERRORISM, A PRECISION-DELIVERY WEAPON AND THE NEW FRONTIER IN 21st CENTURY WARFARE
REVISED & UPDATED | ENGLISH EDITION 2008-2012 BY HEDI ENGHELBERG
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What's good for this side of the mirror, with all the developments of the computing, internet and... more What's good for this side of the mirror, with all the developments of the computing, internet and digital age, is good for the other side of the mirror, with the hackers, the cyber bandits and cyber terrorism.
Last year alone we registered a 93% increase in the cyber-attacks: banks, hospitals, military installations, industrial factories, cellular systems, smart phones, utilities, government agencies. We are under attack, strong, with imagination and continuously, from individuals, groups, institutional, non-entity states, rouge government and other governments.
Even the cloud computing is under attack. Even printing this article, I have to get into a public network, connect, and send an email and the printed pages. Every game console on-line is hacked, from Atari to Sony, some for weeks and months at a time.
All the social media are easy to hack, just a few strokes away. There is no place to hide from cyber fraud. There is no simulation that stands alone and is unaffected.
The utilities are under attack. Smart meters, water and electricity, are easy to monitor via Internet, but with the same token, are easy to hack. The utilities fired the low-paid foot-walkers, door-to-door water/gas/electricity technicians. Now is so easy for a medium trained hacker from across the ocean to access the public networks, the water meters and so called "electrical smart grid" network: the information of what we do at home, is there, almost in the open. You can see the routers with their two small antennas and the red-power-light on the top of the public lighting posts, every 100-200 yards.
They, the cyber hackers, can see what we do at home and as well that the utilities are doing and they can simply shut down the grids, with catastrophic consequences, for civilian and military activities.
On one of the most important buildings in the nation's capital (Washington DC), the Commerce Department, high above one of the entrances, has something written in stone. Just for the purpose of this article, we will change the word "commerce" with "cyber terrorism" or "cyber fraud" | “cyber terrorism defines every wind, outrides every tempest and invades every zone" by Bancroft.
The definition of "breaking news" evolved from half a day just a few decades ago to a few minutes, until the story is uploaded in Facebook, Tweeter or Fox/CNN/BBC sites, and we get them on the way to work, commuting, eating, working, at the movie or doing groceries at the supermarket, in any smart and internet connected device available.
All because the open system we based Internet and the full of flaws PC OS operating systems are so prone to attacks and easy to access and to hack,
The attacks were so vicious this year alone, to military agencies, that the Pentagon and military establishment started to equal a cyber-attack on its installations and systems as a hostile military action and consider a military retaliation attack against any hacker or country that will do it again.
Don’t have any illusion: No application on your computer or on the cloud is TOTALLY safe. Hacking is not anymore an amateur occupation. It’s the business “du jour”. Now is a profession and is very much in demand. People that had their life hidden, because they hack, commit cyber frauds and industrial espionage, now are going open, to hack in the open and become popular.
On one hand the computers and Internet were the drivers of economic prosperity, cultural progress and more recently, political goals.
On the other side, the specialization of the cyber hackers, transformed them into many jacks of all trades. The hackers and cyber bandits, cyber saboteurs are "hyper specialized workers". The code developers and code breakers are at the front of the cyber terrorism, cyber fraud and cyber espionage, each managing an assigned project.
The code writers and the code breakers are competitors on the small field of activity, each trying to do and do the others work and access important and in many time, vital information.
Vital industries will have to develop specific systems architecture and specific software, hard to get, not like a Windows, Mac or Linux, available everywhere, at the local supermarket.
Some important problems have to be addressed and corrected fast.
There are countries in the world where a business model or start-up company is based on a very deep Internet investigation and industrial espionage and industrial secret stealing.
Many facades are crumbling because hacking and cyber-attacks are so frequent and done in the day light. What more tragic is that with every passed day we are more dependent on computers and cybernetic systems
Every day more systems are on line, like GPS and airline traffic control.
On other face of the coin, the cyber bandits are there, just waiting to hack another system that was just introduced a few days ago. Nothing escapes they scrutiny.
This is an indescribable trend, how for every software that is introduced on line and at the same one that is hacked.
If you have an interesting and successful business, that will be hacked as well. This is a true paradise for cyber bandits. We have to know what other guy is doing, what the other company has invented and what country is up to.
Today we can take a picture of a check and deposited in out account.
So you can imagine that all this process can be reverse engineered and hacked and put at the purpose of a criminal enterprise.
Every day millions of companies are attacked by millions of amateurs and professional hackers. Not all the attacks are reported, maybe less that 1-2% of all of them.
Interaction on Internet is on one hand very simple with so many social networks and indeed very convenient, and on the other hand, a dangerous interaction.
They’re no privacy. Even if you volunteer the information on social networks like Facebook or the info is retrieved from the web surfing by so many hacking programs, where you go for dining, what you eat, what you buy, what you read, what you interact with, what you watch on your Netflix account, what you listen for on your iTunes, all now is public domain. We are addicted to a new drug, named the net. This makes us all very vulnerable to hacking.
They’re no privacy. Even if you volunteer the information on social networks like Facebook or the info is retrieved from the web surfing by so many hacking programs, where you go for dining, what you eat, what you buy, what you read, what you interact with, what you watch on your Netflix account, what you listen for on your iTunes, all now is public domain. We are addicted to a new drug, named the net. This makes us all very vulnerable to hacking.
Terrorism does not exist without financing. Find the source of financed, and you will find the terrorist individual or groups. Today the cyber terrorism offers and unique and golden opportunity for banking hacking and continue financing the hard core terrorism!
In the past, one manner to obtain money for terrorism and covert military operations was extortion, being a client of rouge terrorism-sponsor states (Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc.), drug smuggling, kidnappings and extortion. All of the above involve some form of close contact and local operation, which cost money, is complicated and need very trained and skilled assets.
Cyber terrorism, cyber fraud and cyber sabotage/espionage, being an asymmetric form of war and operations, can be conducted with minimum invasion, from abroad, fast, with low cost, anonymous and with maximum efficiency.
Other two most dangerous problems are defined by:
- The easiness of obtaining financing for illicit activities and terrorism (all forms) from cyber fraud banking and identify theft,
- Access to industrial, civil and military information, for economic gains and pre-positioning on and/or for a preemptive military attack.
These trends will continue and accentuate. In my opinion the actual operational systems (OS) are obsolete and full of bugs and open doors.
Dual systems and new operational system will have to introduced, in order to stop cyber terrorism, cyber fraud and cyber espionage.
Since you can buy an operation system at the supermarket and/or at the local Walmart store, download any hacking program from the web, for free, this trend of illegal activity of cyber fraud and cyber terrorism and cyber sabotage will continue.
Because the development of computing and Internet was so fast, we based our computing system on faulty OS programs,
We suffer today of these very important problems. The actual OS are adequate for PS and small computing, but not for big computing, banking, health system, military, utilities, mass transportation systems, etc.
We cannot pretend that all computing is ok and go forward with these types of OS-s. We have to write new types of computing OS (operating systems), that will be secure and with restricted distribution, not interactive, not downloadable from the web and/or sold at the local software store.
Somehow we will have to limit the tools the cyber terrorists can use and be proactive, not just reactive as we are today: reacting to each and every danger and trying to limit the damage to millions of users.
International and local legislation have to compliment this effort.
Vital industries will have to develop specific systems architecture and specific software, hard to get, not like a Windows, Mac or Linux, available everywhere,
Rethinking the government, banking, telecom, transportation, utilities, health system computing software, how we do information storage and how we access Internet will keep us, somehow, sometime, a little bit more protected.
[Memo Presented to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, July 11-12th, 2011]
BY HEDI ENGHELBERG
FROM THE BOOK The Evolution of CYBER TERRORISM A PRECISION-DELIVERY WEAPON THE NEW FRONTIER IN 21st CENTURY WARFARE
POINTS-OF-VIEW ON A WRONG HISTORIC AGREEMENT
VIS-A-VIS OF THE THEORY OF “NO DEAL WAS A BETTER D... more POINTS-OF-VIEW ON A WRONG HISTORIC AGREEMENT
VIS-A-VIS OF THE THEORY OF “NO DEAL WAS A BETTER DEAL” | -A Deja Vue-
October, 1994: PRESIDENT Clinton announces: “will make the United States, the Korean peninsula and the world safer”, after he signed a deal in Geneva with the repressive/dictatorial regime in N.Korea, about NK (then) covert nuclear program; the deal, then was covering a freeze and later the destruction of the atomic program, an especially the Yongbyon uranium/plutonium reactor.
New York Times, October 9, 1994: “Clearly delighted by what he considers a victory for his foreign policy, the President appeared before television cameras to hail the agreement as "the first step on the road to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula." He instructed Special Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci, the Administration's lead negotiator with North Korea, to sign the accord Friday in Geneva”.
Sept. 2015: the Yongbyon reactor is being activated, ICBM are tested for flight sustainability and maybe with the project aim to place a small atomic bomb at the business end of a long-range ballistic missile.
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, Iran will be under scrutiny. But they hold the ground and it will change little on this ground. How different will Iran be in a decade from now (a threshold nuclear power) to dangerously real nuclear-heads-armed-IBCMs in a decade + 6 months? Will Iran look in 2025 like North Korea (conducted nuclear test in 2006 and now at least 10 weapons) or else? Only history will prove us wrong or right!
Key Words: atomic deals, trade, technology, money, access to weapons, terrorism sponsorship, long range rocket technology, self-inspection, map of atomic r&d sites, crude oil revenues, threshold atomic powers.
There is so much information and so many opinions, chats on the traditional news outlets, TV, cable, newspapers, digital media, Internet, Social Media -pro and contra- that I will go straight to the points. A large majority think this deal is bad policy.
Everybody is informed. Everybody has an opinion. After more than 20 months of negotiations, the 109-page long document, an agreement -included 5 confidential annexes- is signed between Iran and other 6 nations: USA, France, Great Britain, China, Russia and Germany.
As mentioned before, terrorism, the cyber terrorism, cyber theft and cyber fraud is touching us a... more As mentioned before, terrorism, the cyber terrorism, cyber theft and cyber fraud is touching us all. Nothing is out of reach, nobody is sparred.
KEY WORDS: INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, CYBER SECURITY, INTERNET TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY INFORMATION, LEGISTATION, REGULATION, DEFENSE, TREASURE.
With Social Media connection, cyber bullying is like a shadow that never leaves you on a shiny, s... more With Social Media connection, cyber bullying is like a shadow that never leaves you on a shiny, sunny day: cyber bullying it’s a 24/7-criminal activity, sometime in the open, sometime anonymous.
On-line voting, a new platform, a new concept.
Instant on-line decision and stance on policies ... more On-line voting, a new platform, a new concept.
Instant on-line decision and stance on policies and intelligent processes, a direct answer and input from the electorate on a single political issue or question.
KEY WORDS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AUTOMOTIVE CYBER HACKING, LITIGATIONS, SAFETY EQUIPMENT, VEHC... more KEY WORDS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AUTOMOTIVE CYBER HACKING, LITIGATIONS, SAFETY EQUIPMENT, VEHCILE TECHNOLOGY, MANIPULATION OF AUTOMOTIVE CONTROL MODULES, PLC.
We have many autonomous vehicles around us, and one good example is the satellite controlled UAV-drones, the space vehicles and autonomous robots. Sure, there is high-speed Wi-Fi in airplanes, trucks, trains and buses. On one side, we like to take advantage of this free (sometimes…) and on demand access, to stay communicated and be productive, but at the same time, a cyber-bandit can access our information and the vehicle information via the same internet system. There are always two sides of every metal coin. The automotive cyber hacking ® is a game changer. Be Aware!
ABSTRACT: SOME INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS ARE GOOD FOR US. SOME HOME AND MILITARY ROBOTS WILL EVOLVE INTO ... more ABSTRACT: SOME INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS ARE GOOD FOR US. SOME HOME AND MILITARY ROBOTS WILL EVOLVE INTO SUPER-SMART DEVICES, combining technology of the driverless cars, UAV, home robots, smart GPS ordinance, engaging in land, oceans, air and space activities. The robots will compete with humans for land space, factories and energy resources.
A fragment of a larger work.
HEDI ENGHELBERG |
THE TIME, THE ROOM WITH A RED PAINTING.
An Essay About Time, Consciousness, Experience and Memory. The Relation Between Human Experience, Brain, Memory and Consciousness. Time Travel From The Room With A Red Painting. Space and Human Experience.
ENG PUBLISHING , BUSINESS UNIT OF THE ENG GROUP LLC
ISBN 978 1 60585 125-9
DIGITAL VERSION: 1.02
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ESTUDIO POLÍTICO: LA EVOLUCIÓN Y LA TRASFORMACIÓN DEL TERRORISMO MUNDIAL Y DEL INTERNET AL CYBER FRAUDE, AL CRIMEN CIBERNÉTICO, AL CYBER CONTROL Y A LAS GUERRAS CIBERNÉTICAS MODERNAS.
“EVERYBODY KNOWS NOW EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE. WE ARE EXPOSED” | “Debemos considerar el terrorismo como el uso de la muerte como arma política”. Hedi Enghelberg |
EMPEZADO EN 1999, ESTE LIBRO ES UNO DE LOS PRIMEROS PUBLICADOS (2001-2003) SOBRE (ENTONCES, CASI INCIPIENTE) ESTE FLAGELLO DEL CYBER TERRORISMO/CRIUME/FRAUD/WAR, HOY UNAS REALE DIMENSIONES DEL ESPACIO POLITICO, SOCIAL, ECONOMICO Y MILITAR DE NUESTRA EPOCA.
[ NOTA DEL AUTOR: COMO APOYO ACADEMICO, OFRECEMOS ESTE LIBRO EN ESPANOL DE MANERA GRATUITA, PARA LOS ESTUADIANTES DE BACHILLERATO, UNDERGRADUATES, GRADUATES Y PARA LOS ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS DE MAESTRIA Y DOCTORADO. LIBRO EN ESPANOL CON ALGUNAS ANOTACIONES EN INGLES.]
EVERYWHERE, ANYTIME.
WE ARE EXPOSED!” | HEDI ENGHELBERG
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"SOCIAL MEDIA IN TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR"
CYBER WARS, CYBER ESPIONAGE, CYBER FRAUD, CYBER CRIME, PROPAGANDA AND DECEPTION WARS.
CYBER CONTROL OF INFORMATION FROM THE UNIVERSAL POINT-OF-VIEW OF THE PROCESS AND IT’S USES IN TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR.
P O L I T I C A L S T U D Y, B R I E F I N G - W H I T E P A P E R
VOLUME III: THIRD VOLUME IN THE CYBER TERRORISM SERIES
ELECTRONIC & DIGITAL EDITION | VERSION 1.0
ISBN 978-1-60585-126-6
December 2014 | MMXIV
This is a fragment of the full book format due to be published Digital Format (e-Book) in December 2014
Wars have been waged since the beginning of human history. Humanity has witnessed much from the first rather symbolic and cruel biblical war between Cain and Abel to the most technological one that was the Second Lebanon war and - Iraqi War of March/April 2003. The world has gone through two great world wars and over 250 conventional and peripheral wars only in the last ninety years since 1914.
Secret Services and information operations have existed for over 3,000 years. The construction of strongholds in nearby hills (castors) was adopted as basic strategy from the Romans. This site was the zone’s focal military point. We have seen the same strategies used by the greatest military strategists throughout history, from Sparta, Alexander the Great, Pompeii, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, through Napoleon, Wellington, Allenby, World Wars I and WW II up to the ultra-modern wars of the Six Days, Yom Kippur, the Falklands, the 1990 Iraqi War, the 2002 Afghanistan War, the 2003 Iraqi War Second Lebanon War and the immense weight that information and secret operations have in succeeding in battle and war.
Wars are fought for economic, religious, political, cultural or social causes. There is one common characteristic to all wars: they bring forth modernity and new weapons. (Nitkin)
In the development of nations, a common characteristic of prosperity has been modernity, economic wealth and justice.
Modernity, economic wealth and justice are characteristic of the prosperity experienced by developed nations. “Modern society’s overall dependence upon information technology and communications systems…brings new threats to the society that it is, in other ways, benefiting” according to Furnell and Warren in “Computer Hacking and Cyber Terrorism: The real threats in the new Millennium?”
Modernity is resisted for several reasons, but particularly for cultural and religious ones. The democratization of modernity and technology leads directly towards intellectual emancipation and social change. Such change and resistance to change towards new socio-political orders have brought about wars.
A new form of resistance to change, modernity and democracy appeared towards the end of the twentieth century: fundamentalism. In order to impose itself on society, fundamentalism resorted to the only weapon it had at its disposal: terrorism. It is cheap, abundant and easy to employ. The return on terrorism (ROT) is at least 1: 100 for suicide bombings targeting people and social gatherings or 1:250,000 for economic targets.
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THE ROOM WITH A RED PAINTING.
An Essay About Time, Consciousness, Experience and Memory.
The Relation Between Human Experience, Brain, Memory and Consciousness.
Time Travel From The Room With A Red Painting.
Space and Human Experience. A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.
Papers by HEDI ENGHELBERG
“…As it goes with Israel, so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us…” | Eric Hoffer, May 1968.
Blackberry was an innovation and a surprisingly smart device; was an elegant and sleek artifact with a real keyboard, could access internet, send and receive emails and securely exchange messages. Was a spectacular fall from 50% in USA and 20% global market share, to only 0.5% global market share in 15 years. Once a cornerstone of the smart devices with more than 50% North American market share and the very first model of smart phones, email, text and internet access, long before iPhone, BlackBerry now commands only 0.5% or less of the market.
It was the North American brutal, no-prisoneers, Silicon Valley competition or bad RIM corp decisions? It was the paramount financial power of Apple vs a company that never was really strong financially, better said, under-financed. It was the insistence in a physical keyboard vs a larger screen and a digital keyboard? It was the large American telcos, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobiles, power play?
Before the movie "BlackBerry" (a 2023 director Matt Johnson's Canadian movie, a biographical drama film from a script by Johnson and producer Matthew Miller), this 2015 article was the only published material to deal with the rise and the fall, the real sad drama and collapse of a "darling" of the Canadian tech industry: THE RISE AND FALL OF A STATE-OF-THE-ART DEVICE, A TITAN OF MOBILITY AND SMART COMMUNICATIONS, BLACKBERRY 1999 - 2015.
*Before time started to be recorded and time events measured, about 6,000 years ago, at the same time we have started to grow potatoes, we were deemed nomads; people moving between pastures, roaming from place to place, traveling from an area to another area. A nomadic person moves around for gathering food and other resources. Now, being politically correct, we have replaced the archaic word “nomad” with the modern term “mobile”.
Unlike the phones lines, newspaper and radio/TV, which are services that have to be purchased and maintained under some type of contractual structure, Internet access have become a fundamental right and access to it is mandatory. THE SMART PHONE DEVICES & AI will make any social movement, any revolution, depend deeply on the messages the people, the very actors of the social event are constantly interchanging. The speed of the information communication is of essence, not so much the content. The veracity of the information exchanged via Social Media can be later challenged or validated. See the electronic messages of the social movements in Baltimore, New York and Ferguson: some were true to the essence of the events; some were fabricated and manipulated by the actors. In electronic media, everything can be manipulated: fast and with a minimum of effort.
Combine this with AI and have a "perfect storm"!
> KEYWORDS: MODERNITY, REVOLUTIONS, INTERNET, TELECOM, SMART PHONES, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, ELECTRONIC MEDIA, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, CYBER TERRORISM, TERRORISM OVER THE INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA IN TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR, BOOKS & ARTICLES BY HEDI ENGHELBERG
NEW CONCEPT:
CYBER TERRORISM CONVERGENCE ®
Cyber terrorism convergence it’s a new trend in the worldwide terrorist activities. Due to the nature of the digital media, they are using now the entire spectrum, in means of technology, hardware and software. One device, for example, like a smart phone, or a laptop can collect, generate files of sound, images, film and transmit them over (via radio waves) Internet, to be posted on a web site , as files or messages on social networks (see www.twitter.com).
Using convergence, the terrorist are melting and interlocking all the resources of computers, information technology, digital media, telecom, LAN, WIFI, publishing & editing software into generating content that will be broadcasted via Internet. This content or pocket of information as then retransmitted, for free by the media outlets, via newspapers, magazines, radio, television, web based news outlet, transformed into a certain type* of news and entertainment. Certain Type refers to the nature of damage it produces in the public option view, even if the military value is close to nothing.
Standard Example: the June 2009 message of the President Obama and his speech to the Muslim World, from Cairo University coincided with the near perfect timing of Osama bin Laden message, from an obscure cave in the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. If this message (unpolished and with poor audio quality), published somewhere in Internet, have not been broadcasted (for free and at a precise time) by satellite news network Al Jazeera and rebroadcasted by the rest of the news network, translates, interpreted, re transmitted, discussed, it will just faded way in the immense electronic traffic generated by Internet.
The trend (electronic media convergence) is dominated by:
• Hardware, like super smart devices, phones and laptops.
• Internet access, via telecom, Wi-Fi and Wimax, This complex process is complimented by media researched, (data mining), Internet based software, social networking, targeted media (object-based media).
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Briefing on Cyber Terrorism No. 1053
NEW CONCEPT:
CYBER TERRORISM MARKETING ®
Now, new tactics are in place, as ideas and technology melt, and we are talking about CYBER TERRORISM MARKETING ® and TERRORISM MARKETING ® more than a direct terrorism attack.
ONE HAS TO APPLY GLOBAL STRATEGIES AND ENHANCES TACTICAL PROCEDURES TO FIGHTS THESE TRENDS AND PRECISION DELIVERY WEAPON OF THIS ASYMMETRIC TYPE OF WAR, WHICH IS CYBER TERRORISM. The terrorist’s networks (+ its associates) are now savvy marketing specialists with professional knowledge in psychology. They are technology experts, mass media projectors and future analyst. The object of terrorist analyze is behavior, perception, conversational marketing, body language, responsive environment, future emotion presumes, mass media mixes and cocktails, multi-sensory marketing, new flavors of sub-conscious advertise.
Banking is already a feature on a smart device. In a short time even credit card transactions over VoIP prone lines will be possible, so a full spectrum of services will be available from a smart phone, the center of convergence.
Al Qaeda as a doctrine. Al Qaeda is now (has transformed and evolved into) a doctrine, more than a cohered and effective fighting force, as communism doctrine was during the Cold War, and it have to be engaged in this very strategic level. One of the fuels that feed terrorism and extremism is the continuing coverage of the Western and Arab media of the Al Qaeda type (franchise) discourse.
They (Western media) provide a wide platform the broadcasting of this doctrine, the largest one in the history of mankind. With this kind of wide broadcasting, every message, every argument, every speech is heard and received everywhere, and stored, for replays and references. Al Qaeda is transforming into a symbol and it’s a franchised model to be adapted and (always) improved, with new technologies as cyber terrorism (an asymmetric war weapon) where marketing and technology convergence is a much needed and desired broadcasting tool.
MAJOR NEW OUTLETS SELF CENSURE OF THE TERRORISM COVERAGE HAVE TO BE FACTORED IN. The media are careering out the terrorist agenda and propaganda. As “loose lips sinks ships”, as well loose media coverage of terrorist proclamations serves the very purpose of the proclamation: to be proclaimed and broadcasted. If no news about Al Qaeda & Co. will be broadcasted, then the state agencies and institutions can better handle the terrorism flagella. This is not limiting the free speech, but merely a tactic and strategy in this asymmetric war: cyber terrorism.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: The media coverage, the Taliban terrorist marketing and the lessons of the example of the kidnapping of Sargent. Gilad Shalit (captured by Hamas, Gaza, Israel, 2006; released in Oct. 2011, in exchange for 1,047 convicted Palestinian terrorist) versus Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl (captured by Taliban, Afghanistan)
Cyber terrorism/ Cyber warfare works on two main fronts:
• The economical front, trying to mine and undermine the economical life of the opponent, causing disruptions in the economical, social and in some cases, even military operations.
• The propaganda front, using Internet as a platform to spread propaganda, doctrines of hate, provide training manuals, arguments and information and a tool to reach people and groups all over the world.
THE TERRORISTS KNOW THAT IS EASIER TO REINFORCE A PERCEPTION THAN CREATE A NEW ONE and they use the mass media and convergence to this end. Al Qaeda opened the way with the explosive and deadly demonstration of 9/11. It provided in the 90’ and early 2000’ the structure and the doctrine for the fighting against the infidels. It may fade away, but new flavors will emerge, and the technology convergence will be the platform to spread away the new doctrines and schools of thoughts.
NOTE: The Cyber Terrorism it's a form/type of asymmetric war, using media convergence, computers, internet and smart devices (with access to internet). Given the difficulty of monitoring, tracing and forensic analyze of the telecom, digitals VoIP, social sites and communications in Internet (read cyber space and networks) we want to make the strong case that he actual web space/internet (with all its marketing tools, telecom and media) are an essential and sine-qua-non tool for extremists and terrorists worldwide.________________________________________
THE EVOLUTION AND THE FIGHTS AGAINST CYBER TERRORISM, A PRECISION-DELIVERY WEAPON AND THE NEW FRONTIER IN 21st CENTURY WARFARE
REVISED & UPDATED | ENGLISH EDITION 2008-2012 BY HEDI ENGHELBERG
Last year alone we registered a 93% increase in the cyber-attacks: banks, hospitals, military installations, industrial factories, cellular systems, smart phones, utilities, government agencies. We are under attack, strong, with imagination and continuously, from individuals, groups, institutional, non-entity states, rouge government and other governments.
Even the cloud computing is under attack. Even printing this article, I have to get into a public network, connect, and send an email and the printed pages. Every game console on-line is hacked, from Atari to Sony, some for weeks and months at a time.
All the social media are easy to hack, just a few strokes away. There is no place to hide from cyber fraud. There is no simulation that stands alone and is unaffected.
The utilities are under attack. Smart meters, water and electricity, are easy to monitor via Internet, but with the same token, are easy to hack. The utilities fired the low-paid foot-walkers, door-to-door water/gas/electricity technicians. Now is so easy for a medium trained hacker from across the ocean to access the public networks, the water meters and so called "electrical smart grid" network: the information of what we do at home, is there, almost in the open. You can see the routers with their two small antennas and the red-power-light on the top of the public lighting posts, every 100-200 yards.
They, the cyber hackers, can see what we do at home and as well that the utilities are doing and they can simply shut down the grids, with catastrophic consequences, for civilian and military activities.
On one of the most important buildings in the nation's capital (Washington DC), the Commerce Department, high above one of the entrances, has something written in stone. Just for the purpose of this article, we will change the word "commerce" with "cyber terrorism" or "cyber fraud" | “cyber terrorism defines every wind, outrides every tempest and invades every zone" by Bancroft.
The definition of "breaking news" evolved from half a day just a few decades ago to a few minutes, until the story is uploaded in Facebook, Tweeter or Fox/CNN/BBC sites, and we get them on the way to work, commuting, eating, working, at the movie or doing groceries at the supermarket, in any smart and internet connected device available.
All because the open system we based Internet and the full of flaws PC OS operating systems are so prone to attacks and easy to access and to hack,
The attacks were so vicious this year alone, to military agencies, that the Pentagon and military establishment started to equal a cyber-attack on its installations and systems as a hostile military action and consider a military retaliation attack against any hacker or country that will do it again.
Don’t have any illusion: No application on your computer or on the cloud is TOTALLY safe. Hacking is not anymore an amateur occupation. It’s the business “du jour”. Now is a profession and is very much in demand. People that had their life hidden, because they hack, commit cyber frauds and industrial espionage, now are going open, to hack in the open and become popular.
On one hand the computers and Internet were the drivers of economic prosperity, cultural progress and more recently, political goals.
On the other side, the specialization of the cyber hackers, transformed them into many jacks of all trades. The hackers and cyber bandits, cyber saboteurs are "hyper specialized workers". The code developers and code breakers are at the front of the cyber terrorism, cyber fraud and cyber espionage, each managing an assigned project.
The code writers and the code breakers are competitors on the small field of activity, each trying to do and do the others work and access important and in many time, vital information.
Vital industries will have to develop specific systems architecture and specific software, hard to get, not like a Windows, Mac or Linux, available everywhere, at the local supermarket.
Some important problems have to be addressed and corrected fast.
There are countries in the world where a business model or start-up company is based on a very deep Internet investigation and industrial espionage and industrial secret stealing.
Many facades are crumbling because hacking and cyber-attacks are so frequent and done in the day light. What more tragic is that with every passed day we are more dependent on computers and cybernetic systems
Every day more systems are on line, like GPS and airline traffic control.
On other face of the coin, the cyber bandits are there, just waiting to hack another system that was just introduced a few days ago. Nothing escapes they scrutiny.
This is an indescribable trend, how for every software that is introduced on line and at the same one that is hacked.
If you have an interesting and successful business, that will be hacked as well. This is a true paradise for cyber bandits. We have to know what other guy is doing, what the other company has invented and what country is up to.
Today we can take a picture of a check and deposited in out account.
So you can imagine that all this process can be reverse engineered and hacked and put at the purpose of a criminal enterprise.
Every day millions of companies are attacked by millions of amateurs and professional hackers. Not all the attacks are reported, maybe less that 1-2% of all of them.
Interaction on Internet is on one hand very simple with so many social networks and indeed very convenient, and on the other hand, a dangerous interaction.
They’re no privacy. Even if you volunteer the information on social networks like Facebook or the info is retrieved from the web surfing by so many hacking programs, where you go for dining, what you eat, what you buy, what you read, what you interact with, what you watch on your Netflix account, what you listen for on your iTunes, all now is public domain. We are addicted to a new drug, named the net. This makes us all very vulnerable to hacking.
They’re no privacy. Even if you volunteer the information on social networks like Facebook or the info is retrieved from the web surfing by so many hacking programs, where you go for dining, what you eat, what you buy, what you read, what you interact with, what you watch on your Netflix account, what you listen for on your iTunes, all now is public domain. We are addicted to a new drug, named the net. This makes us all very vulnerable to hacking.
Terrorism does not exist without financing. Find the source of financed, and you will find the terrorist individual or groups. Today the cyber terrorism offers and unique and golden opportunity for banking hacking and continue financing the hard core terrorism!
In the past, one manner to obtain money for terrorism and covert military operations was extortion, being a client of rouge terrorism-sponsor states (Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc.), drug smuggling, kidnappings and extortion. All of the above involve some form of close contact and local operation, which cost money, is complicated and need very trained and skilled assets.
Cyber terrorism, cyber fraud and cyber sabotage/espionage, being an asymmetric form of war and operations, can be conducted with minimum invasion, from abroad, fast, with low cost, anonymous and with maximum efficiency.
Other two most dangerous problems are defined by:
- The easiness of obtaining financing for illicit activities and terrorism (all forms) from cyber fraud banking and identify theft,
- Access to industrial, civil and military information, for economic gains and pre-positioning on and/or for a preemptive military attack.
These trends will continue and accentuate. In my opinion the actual operational systems (OS) are obsolete and full of bugs and open doors.
Dual systems and new operational system will have to introduced, in order to stop cyber terrorism, cyber fraud and cyber espionage.
Since you can buy an operation system at the supermarket and/or at the local Walmart store, download any hacking program from the web, for free, this trend of illegal activity of cyber fraud and cyber terrorism and cyber sabotage will continue.
Because the development of computing and Internet was so fast, we based our computing system on faulty OS programs,
We suffer today of these very important problems. The actual OS are adequate for PS and small computing, but not for big computing, banking, health system, military, utilities, mass transportation systems, etc.
We cannot pretend that all computing is ok and go forward with these types of OS-s. We have to write new types of computing OS (operating systems), that will be secure and with restricted distribution, not interactive, not downloadable from the web and/or sold at the local software store.
Somehow we will have to limit the tools the cyber terrorists can use and be proactive, not just reactive as we are today: reacting to each and every danger and trying to limit the damage to millions of users.
International and local legislation have to compliment this effort.
Vital industries will have to develop specific systems architecture and specific software, hard to get, not like a Windows, Mac or Linux, available everywhere,
Rethinking the government, banking, telecom, transportation, utilities, health system computing software, how we do information storage and how we access Internet will keep us, somehow, sometime, a little bit more protected.
[Memo Presented to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, July 11-12th, 2011]
BY HEDI ENGHELBERG
FROM THE BOOK The Evolution of CYBER TERRORISM A PRECISION-DELIVERY WEAPON THE NEW FRONTIER IN 21st CENTURY WARFARE
VIS-A-VIS OF THE THEORY OF “NO DEAL WAS A BETTER DEAL” | -A Deja Vue-
October, 1994: PRESIDENT Clinton announces: “will make the United States, the Korean peninsula and the world safer”, after he signed a deal in Geneva with the repressive/dictatorial regime in N.Korea, about NK (then) covert nuclear program; the deal, then was covering a freeze and later the destruction of the atomic program, an especially the Yongbyon uranium/plutonium reactor.
New York Times, October 9, 1994: “Clearly delighted by what he considers a victory for his foreign policy, the President appeared before television cameras to hail the agreement as "the first step on the road to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula." He instructed Special Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci, the Administration's lead negotiator with North Korea, to sign the accord Friday in Geneva”.
Sept. 2015: the Yongbyon reactor is being activated, ICBM are tested for flight sustainability and maybe with the project aim to place a small atomic bomb at the business end of a long-range ballistic missile.
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, Iran will be under scrutiny. But they hold the ground and it will change little on this ground. How different will Iran be in a decade from now (a threshold nuclear power) to dangerously real nuclear-heads-armed-IBCMs in a decade + 6 months? Will Iran look in 2025 like North Korea (conducted nuclear test in 2006 and now at least 10 weapons) or else? Only history will prove us wrong or right!
Key Words: atomic deals, trade, technology, money, access to weapons, terrorism sponsorship, long range rocket technology, self-inspection, map of atomic r&d sites, crude oil revenues, threshold atomic powers.
There is so much information and so many opinions, chats on the traditional news outlets, TV, cable, newspapers, digital media, Internet, Social Media -pro and contra- that I will go straight to the points. A large majority think this deal is bad policy.
Everybody is informed. Everybody has an opinion. After more than 20 months of negotiations, the 109-page long document, an agreement -included 5 confidential annexes- is signed between Iran and other 6 nations: USA, France, Great Britain, China, Russia and Germany.
KEY WORDS: INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, CYBER SECURITY, INTERNET TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY INFORMATION, LEGISTATION, REGULATION, DEFENSE, TREASURE.
Instant on-line decision and stance on policies and intelligent processes, a direct answer and input from the electorate on a single political issue or question.
We have many autonomous vehicles around us, and one good example is the satellite controlled UAV-drones, the space vehicles and autonomous robots. Sure, there is high-speed Wi-Fi in airplanes, trucks, trains and buses. On one side, we like to take advantage of this free (sometimes…) and on demand access, to stay communicated and be productive, but at the same time, a cyber-bandit can access our information and the vehicle information via the same internet system. There are always two sides of every metal coin. The automotive cyber hacking ® is a game changer. Be Aware!
A fragment of a larger work.
HEDI ENGHELBERG |
THE TIME, THE ROOM WITH A RED PAINTING.
An Essay About Time, Consciousness, Experience and Memory. The Relation Between Human Experience, Brain, Memory and Consciousness. Time Travel From The Room With A Red Painting. Space and Human Experience.
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DECEMBER 2014 | MMXIV