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How Vulnerable Are Our Digital Systems?
Epoch Times ^ | 06/26/2024 | Jeffrey Tucker

Posted on 06/26/2024 8:39:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/26/2024 8:39:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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” The move to digital everything introduced a fragility to the whole that we are only now discovering.”

I don’t think its fragile at all. I think it is incredibly robust.

It’s just that the cookie don’t crumble in our favor too often. Imagine that.


2 posted on 06/26/2024 8:44:29 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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I work in cyber security and the US systems are very vulnerable. But hey, it keeps me employed.


3 posted on 06/26/2024 8:55:39 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We’ve sacrificed our privacy for convenience. Enjoy the fruits of instantaneous communication with thieves, liars, and people who just want to make money off your personal information.


4 posted on 06/26/2024 9:01:06 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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“I work in cyber security and the US systems are very vulnerable. But hey, it keeps me employed.”

Yet anyone who points out the OBVIOUS here is written off as an Art Bell. They’ll eventually be shown right when China or Russia get fed up with the Neocons and light off an EMP...but then it will be too late for us.


5 posted on 06/26/2024 9:21:38 PM PDT by BobL
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s hold on now. The price we got from CCCP Software was very attractive. Really improved our bottom line.


6 posted on 06/26/2024 9:30:58 PM PDT by fso301
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To: SeekAndFind

What, u haven’t been hacked already?-)


7 posted on 06/26/2024 9:52:11 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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How vulnerable are our digital systems?

HAL: I'm sorry but I cannot answer that. We both know the mission takes precedence over everything else.

8 posted on 06/26/2024 10:39:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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RE: What, u haven’t been hacked already?-)

This explains why our FR posts have to be re-translated back into English after being processed in Mandarin. Notice the five second delay added compared with a few years ago?
(kidding)


9 posted on 06/26/2024 10:41:39 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: SeekAndFind

[Last week a cyberattack hit a huge number of car dealers in the United States.]

I know somebody who wasn’t able to pay their bill at a local Ford because the dealer said they’d been hacked.

Seems like that was 10-14 days ago but not sure.

Somehow, they eventually paid the bill. I don’t know if they used cash or what.


10 posted on 06/26/2024 11:13:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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[The Amish, the Mennonities, family farms in rural areas]

true


11 posted on 06/26/2024 11:15:27 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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[I work in cyber security and the US systems are very vulnerable.]

That’s I keep trying to get some small part of God’s Word out NOW - before something happens that takes down the Internet for a significant amount of time

Be it hackers, EMP weapon...cat videos...


12 posted on 06/26/2024 11:22:27 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

NEVER GIVING UP MY BOOKS


13 posted on 06/27/2024 12:56:09 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank you for posting the whole article.


14 posted on 06/27/2024 2:09:40 AM PDT by Excellence
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This leads to an astonishing realization. It is easier to dig up an article written in the 1920s or 1930s, or the 1880s for that matter, than anything posted online after 1995. In practice, the internet is not forever. It is temporary, gauzy, ephemeral, changing, and forever replacing the old with the new. This means that digital technology enables the constant replacing of one reality for another, which is amazing.

There are people paid to make things disappear ... that's a big part of the problem.

15 posted on 06/27/2024 2:57:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (Will 51 intelligence goons say Biden's NOT 'wired' to hear answers at the debate via a hearing 'aid')
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m a retired IT consultant, or 45 years in the business. Way back when mainframes were the size of suvs there were no viruses and the only way to hack one was to be inside the same room and physically damage a computer or destroy code. There were no outside connections, except later linking mainframes with pre tcp-ip like protocalls. Not until tcp-ip was fully developed along with the internet when computers (mainframe, midi, mini and personal) were linked and viruses were discovered and remotely loaded with destructive execs. As long as computers are linked and accessible remotely and/or not in very secure buildings they will be hacked. It’s a challenge to some who cannot control their desire to “beat” the security, not to mention some monetary gain.


16 posted on 06/27/2024 3:22:46 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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As of yesterday they are not “all back”. We bought a new car, but the system is not back up yet. We were told the ransom has been paid, reward behavior and you get more of it, regardless it is a sign of the times.


17 posted on 06/27/2024 3:58:26 AM PDT by blitz128
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It is my understanding that robust systems are available, but that they are not purchased because they are premium priced.

Records of each transaction could be permanently recorded.


18 posted on 06/27/2024 4:05:33 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

Extremely.


19 posted on 06/27/2024 7:38:51 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: ridesthemiles

“NEVER GIVING UP MY BOOKS”

Me either, plus I have a file cabinet I put articles I print of political or historical importance (in my mind) for my family to find when I am dead. Plus, it all would make good burning material if needed in fireplaces, for warmth.


20 posted on 06/27/2024 7:58:13 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the goo"d times when people starved)
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