tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937170202895477126.post6685955509855616190..comments2024-03-25T16:44:35.555-04:00Comments on Sixbears in the Woods: Cyber WarSixbearshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15572224383041421400noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937170202895477126.post-23467084881809695492010-10-02T13:33:04.956-04:002010-10-02T13:33:04.956-04:00"There are some disturbing elements to Stuxne..."There are some disturbing elements to Stuxnet. It's a sophisticated program that may have required the resources of a state to construct. Should that state ever be identified, its leaders will lose a lot of sleep worrying about reprisals."<br /><br />Ho ho! That state, says dollars to donuts, is the good ol' U S of CIA. What can be done will be done - 6,000 years of domineering civilization has proved that point ad infinitum. The only ones to lose sleep will be the lackeys ordered into doing damage control. "Twas ever thus" :-)<br /><br />The internet is one cool tool - the world's encyclopedia at your fingertips 24/7/365.25+, and I sure will miss it once it is gone or no longer safe to surf in. Google is Grandpa - the place to go for things I need to know that isn't known by anyone within a hundred miles.<br /><br />Now that the main projects around here are all on the road to completion I don't have a great need for internet related financial transactions, so I'm doing a lot more cash transactions in front of human beings instead of online bill pay. Will keep one debit card for all the strange things one needs to do cool homesteading (the wife got an apple peeler from an internet business the other day) and get rid of the regular credit cards.<br /><br />You know how wonderful it is to go to a general store type place and turn on the gas pump and fill up without a biometric scan, swiping the credit card or pre-paying? I find it wonderful enough to be recognized as a human to gladly cough up an extra 3 cents per gallon.<br /><br />When technology bites you in the ass it's time to ditch it rather than develop a more complex way of using it. I like being a "throwback".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1937170202895477126.post-26535717064579783322010-10-02T09:30:00.459-04:002010-10-02T09:30:00.459-04:00A lot of the computer viruses that hit here come f...A lot of the computer viruses that hit here come from China. That doesn't mean that the government did it. You said: "required the resources of a state to construct". Don't see how that could be possible since it is private individuals who write the most complicated code. Politicians just lie, except Al Gore, he said he invented the internet :(Dizzy-Dickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14150939928800538404noreply@blogger.com