{"id":58666,"date":"2021-07-18T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58666"},"modified":"2021-07-18T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T01:40:27","slug":"ending-anonymity-why-the-wefs-partnership-against-cybercrime-threatens-the-future-of-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58666","title":{"rendered":"Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF\u2019s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-post-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newspaper-lite-single-large size-newspaper-lite-single-large wp-post-image  lazyload-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ransomware-cyber-pandemic-1.jpeg?resize=1210%2C642&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cyber Polygon\" width=\"1210\" height=\"642\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/ending-anonymity-why-wefs-partnership-against-cybercrime-threatens-future-privacy\/\">Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF\u2019s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h5><strong><em>With many focusing on tomorrow\u2019s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum\u2019s real ambitions in cybersecurity \u2013 to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the US, UK and Israel on board, along with some of the world\u2019s most powerful corporations, it is important to pay attention to their endgame, not just the simulations.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Amid a series of warnings and simulations in the past year regarding a massive cyber attack that could soon bring down the global financial system, the \u201cinformation sharing group\u201d of the largest banks and private financial organizations in the United States\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/fs-isac-flagstar-accellion-solarwinds\/\"><span class=\"s1\">warned earlier this year<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that banks \u201cwill encounter growing danger\u201d from \u201cconverging\u201d nation-state and criminal hackers over the course of 2021 and in the years that follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The organization, called the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), made the claim in its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsisac.com\/navigatingcyber2021-report?utm_campaign=2021-GIOReport&amp;utm_source=media&amp;utm_medium=PressRelease\"><span class=\"s1\">2021 \u201cNavigating Cyber\u201d report<\/span><\/a>, which assesses the events of 2020 and provides a forecast for the current year. That forecast, which casts a devastating cyber attack on the financial system through third parties as practically inevitable, also makes the case for a \u201cglobal fincyber [financial-cyber] utility\u201d as the main solution to the catastrophic scenarios it predicts.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, an organization close to top FS-ISAC members has recently been involved in laying the groundwork for that very \u201cglobal fincyber utility\u201d \u2014 the World Economic Forum, which recently produced the model for such a utility through its Partnership against Cybercrime (WEF-PAC) project&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF\u2019s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy With many focusing on tomorrow\u2019s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum\u2019s real ambitions in cybersecurity \u2013 to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. 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