{"id":28085,"date":"2017-11-17T07:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28085"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:35:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:35:29","slug":"the-pandoras-box-of-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28085","title":{"rendered":"The Pandora\u2019s Box of the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pandora\u2019s Box of the Digital Age<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In the past year alone, a series of hacks and ransomware attacks by hostile governments and other malign actors have raised alarms about a major threat to global stability. Unfortunately, many governments are responding by developing still more cyber weapons, on the mistaken assumption that offense is the best defense.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

STOCKHOLM \u2013 Is the world sliding dangerously toward cyber Armageddon? Let us hope not; but let us also apprehend the threat, and focus on what to do about it.<\/p>\n

One country after another has begun exploring options for bolstering their offensive capabilities in cyberspace, and many other countries have already done so. This is a dangerous escalation. In fact, few other trends pose a bigger threat to global stability.<\/p>\n

Almost all societies have become heavily dependent on the Internet, the world\u2019s most important piece of infrastructure \u2013 and also the infrastructure upon which all other infrastructure relies. The so-called Internet of Things is a misnomer; soon enough, it will be the \u201cInternet of Everything.\u201d And our current era is not a Fourth Industrial Revolution; it is the beginning of the digital age, and the end of the industrial age altogether.<\/p>\n

The digital age has introduced new vulnerabilities that hackers, cyber criminals, and other malign actors are already routinely exploiting. But even more alarming is the eagerness of national governments to conduct cyber-warfare operations against one other.<\/p>\n

We have already reached the stage at which every conflict has a cyber dimension. The United States and Israel crossed the Rubicon in 2010 by launching the Stuxnet attack on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. Now, there is no telling where ongoing but hidden cyber conflicts begin and end.<\/p>\n

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The Pandora\u2019s Box of the Digital Age In the past year alone, a series of hacks and ransomware attacks by hostile governments and other malign actors have raised alarms about a major threat to global stability. Unfortunately, many governments are responding by developing still more cyber weapons, on the mistaken assumption that offense is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17078,4884,441,1049,8402,827],"class_list":["post-28085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-carl-bildt","tag-cyberwarfare","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-project-syndicate","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28086,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085\/revisions\/28086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}