On
the other hand, there is no good news.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/if-only-you-knew-how-to-really-plan-for-a-serious-data-breach/
If
Only You Knew: How to Really Plan For a Serious Data Breach
Your
organization has an incident response plan and a relationship with a
consulting firm that can help contain and remediate a major data
breach when it happens. And, of course, you have cyber and data
breach insurance to cover damages. That’s great.
What
if I told you none of this makes much of a difference when the
nightmare breach scenario actually happens? Sure, an incident
response plan is a great start, but most of those plans focus on the
technical and procedural details of responding to an incident and
keeping the business running, not the public relations panic that
typically occurs after a major breach affecting your customers, brand
perception, and security program image.
What
if I told you that your data breach insurance won’t cover a
cyberattack from China, Russia, or any others on the list of nation
state offenders responsible for a large percentage of attacks today?
Why? Because such attacks
are considered acts of war, which are not covered by most
insurance policies. Furthermore, there are even classes of attacks
or outcomes, such as ransomware, that have been dropped from
coverage.
What
if you knew today that a serious breach would most likely lead to a
string of public relations disasters, one after another, costing you
millions, taking up 20 percent of the average IT staff day for two
years—leading to 75-hour work weeks for many—and make it
increasingly difficult to attract and retain customers and recruit
new talent?
If
it sounds exasperating, that’s because it is. But there are
measures you can take now to prepare yourself for the two-year
firehose that is a serious data breach.
Clearly,
the next step is to have the drone attack. Why waste time telling
everyone that they need to attack?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/pentagon-fast-tracks-new-high-speed-attack-methods-war-191397
Pentagon
Fast-Tracks New High-Speed Attack Methods to War
If
a forward-operating drone suddenly recognized an entire mechanized
column of enemy tanks emerging from wooded areas on the backside of a
mountain, and the force was in a position to close in on allied
ground positions ill-equipped to respond or counterattack, survival
and potential victory in war would rest upon several key variables.
One of these variables is speed. How fast could video images of the
approaching tanks reach human decisionmakers in ground control
centers? How quickly could the one-minute of video showing the
emerging tanks be found from within hours and hours of drone video
feeds? How can the tanks be identified and located in terms of
movement, terrain, weapons or angle of approach? Can the newly
arriving sensor information be processed and transmitted? Should the
target detail reach other drones, nearby allied ground forces or even
fighter jets in range to launch air attacks on the tanks? The answer
to all of the above is “yes.” In order to keep forces alive and
preserve
an opportunity to prevail
in war or even counterattack, processed information would need to
reach the right places in position to respond immediately.
Instead of needing to rely
solely upon point-to-point connectivity between a drone and a single
ground-control station when it comes to receiving and processing
actionable warfare intelligence, what if armored
vehicles, ground
artillery, fighter jets, or even dismounted forces in position to
respond could be informed instantly? Perhaps they could receive
targeting specifics, complete with threat details, navigational
information, geographical specifics and data on a target’s speed of
approach and anticipated attack point? Instead of slower, more
segmented one-point to one-point information transmission, which is
subject to significant latency concerns, what if all of the crucial
detail needed to stop the attack could instantly be identified,
analyzed and networked across an entire force?
Are
we only worried about the government requesting expanded
surveillance?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/9/22616381/apple-child-sexual-abuse-material-scanning-icloud-faq-pushback-privacy
Apple
pushes back against child abuse scanning concerns in new FAQ
In
a new
FAQ,
Apple has attempted to assuage concerns that its new anti-child
abuse measures could
be turned into surveillance tools by authoritarian governments. “Let
us be clear, this technology is limited to detecting CSAM [child
sexual abuse material] stored in iCloud and we will not accede to any
government’s request to expand it,” the company writes.
Apple’s
new tools, announced
last Thursday,
include two features designed to protect children. One, called
“communication safety,” uses on-device machine learning to
identify
and blur [Find
and alter data on your devices? Bob]
sexually explicit images received by children in the Messages app,
and can notify a parent if a child age 12 and younger decides to view
or send such an image. The second is designed to detect known CSAM
by scanning users’ images if they choose to upload them to iCloud.
Apple is notified if CSAM is detected, and it will alert the
authorities when
it verifies such material exists. [By
looking at / capturing the images? Bob]
Imagine
what a return to the office will be like…
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/big-tech-call-center-workers-face-pressure-accept-home-surveillance-n1276227
Big
Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
Colombia-based
call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some
of the nation’s largest companies are being pressured to sign a
contract that lets their employer install cameras in their homes to
monitor work performance, an NBC News investigation has found.
Is
‘ethical data’ possible?
https://www.niso.org/niso-io/2021/08/ethics-data-anonymity-vs-analytics
The
Ethics of Data: Anonymity Vs Analytics
We
are living in unprecedented times. We walk around with powerful
computers in our pockets that can track our every move. We regularly
offer up our location and vital information on what we buy, watch,
and read to digital global powerhouses such as Facebook, Google, and
Amazon.
This
data is, of course, used to provide us with product and service
suggestions designed to improve our lives. The technology now known
as “big data” is a battleground for surveillance. Many feel we
are living in a Big Brother world, where our every physical and
online movement, purchase, and personal message is stored to create a
picture of us that may or may not be accurate.
The
age of big data is now firmly upon us, and we therefore face
collective societal challenges on how our data is handled and used to
target and track us. Data ethics is an emergent theme and one that
poses complex questions for those of us who work in the identity and
knowledge sector.
… Luciano
Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo, on behalf of the Turing Institute
and the Oxford Internet Institute, defined
data ethics in 2016 as “a new branch of ethics that studies and
evaluates moral problems related to data (including generation,
recording, curation, processing, dissemination, sharing and use),
algorithms (including artificial intelligence, artificial agents,
machine learning and robots) and corresponding practices (including
responsible innovation, programming, hacking and professional
codes).”
Perspective.
My AI says not to worry, as long as I keep my litter box clean.
https://interestingengineering.com/technological-singularity-an-impending-intelligence-explosion
Technological
Singularity: An Impending "Intelligence Explosion"
In
this century, humanity is predicted to undergo a transformative
experience, the likes of which have not been seen since we first
began to speak, fashion tools, and plant crops. This experience goes
by various names - "Intelligence Explosion," "Accelerando,"
"Technological Singularity" - but they all have one thing
in common.
They
all come down to the hypothesis that accelerating change,
technological progress, and knowledge will radically change humanity.
In its various forms, this theory cites concepts like the iterative
nature of technology, advances in computing, and historical instances
where major innovations led to explosive growth in human societies.
Many
proponents believe that this "explosion" or "acceleration"
will take place sometime during the 21st century. While the
specifics are subject to debate, there is general consensus among
proponents that it will come down to developments in the fields of
computing and artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, nanotechnology,
and biotechnology.
… In
part II, we will examine how advances in nanotechnology and medical
technology are also leading us towards a point in time beyond which
the future will be difficult to predict.
We
will also take a look at how this predicted revolution will occur - a
rapid onset, or gradually - and what the implications could be.
Last, but not least, we'll look at what the critics and doubters have
had to say about this, and how it stacks up to other predictions that
never seem to come true.
