I’ve come to the conclusion that all the internet and software gurus are all government agents. I don’t believe a Harvard drop out could come up with Facebook and get it to be as big and as powerful as it is without government assistance. The same goes for Microsoft.
I do know the military had the internet in the 1960s, or maybe earlier, so is my theory that far out there? Maybe the government came up with all this as a way to control us.
So, if there’s a “Pearl Harbor Cyber Attack”, caused by the government, we’d all fall in line for more “patriot act” crap.
As someone in the business, I can assure you that success stories like MS, Apple and Facebook really do have humble origins. It is true that the Internet began in the 1960s as a military project; the purpose was to create a communications network that would continue to function after multiple nuclear strikes. But the subsequent growth of the ‘net was due to the military opening the network to outsiders, first to universities and then to commercial interests. The web that we know today was only possible becayse of the thousands of private interests who sought to capitalize on its potential.