Modern warfare is the domain of cyberspace. With a few clicks of a mouse a hacker with the right ICT knowledge can crack a computer code and enter into programs that control major institutions. ICT is Information and Computer Technology.

Ok...maybe cracking the code of any computer security system is an exaggeration but these computer geeks or "idiot savants" might be a better term for these insanely brilliant "dummies", can certainly bypass most viral detection and hacker detection programs that are marketed today.

So the safety of society, when it comes to modern warfare which involves the security of country boundaries and secret codes that protect high level offices, financial, military, and civilian, is in the hands of people who have both, knowledge of programming and ICT, and the integrity to serve the public in a sane and safe manner.

The tool of the terrorist or of the revolution movement is no longer the war machine of the past. The internet and the www - world wide web - has brought about a much more devastating weapon of war than the conventional armored unit, or the foot soldier.

Sure the global military training conventions continue to train all types of soldiers but there is a reason why the military trains high ended computer programmers, or computer literate soldiers. Everything about the art of war has changed with the advent of ICT.

The advent of computer languages and it's use as a weapon or war or a weapon of control is a step that repeats itself in history.

It is an opinion of mine that the same power of languages was used as far back as the days of the ancient Mesopotamian nations. Linguists might agree that there was a time long before the computer and internet age when one language kept secret could serve the purpose of men looking to outwit, outplay, and over rule the competing nations or city states. Like today most old languages were common. But some languages were so complex that only the elite or the scribe priests had access to the written word. I'm thinking Hebrew here. Until the Greeks came along and made reading and writing a commoners domain, the Hebrew priests and chiefs of the Hebrew land ruled.

Why did they rule ? Because they could manipulate the commoner.

When did they lose their power ? When the secret was let out of the bottle.

Today's languages are not different except that the new languages are coded in digital formulas called computer languages. Most computer languages are scripted in a way that a person who is willing to spend time learning them can master a programming language and write programs that will run tiny little programs or widgets all the way to programs that will run gigantic corporations, military facilities, civilian enterprises and financial institutions.

Each level up requires a more complex form of security and some computer languages are kept under the strictest veils of secrecy. But the secret is only as good as the integrity and loyalty of those who write the language.

Computer espionage is no small game. Sure there are idiot hackers, some being so young they still smell of p and winegar but they are as dangerous as the serial killer who finds a thrill in destroying the lives of people who are just trying to get by in a world that is shifting in quantum leaps.

The biggest security threat of the future has already started and it is called cyberspace crime.

To average Joe the commoner this spells trouble. To the people who run military units and who converge on global scales to try to make the world a safe place ( an assumption certainly on my part ) the hackers mentality can mean the final collapse of entire countries or at least the political agendas of such countries. Low tech countries rely heavily on the assistance of those countries that are highly trained in internet security and www security.

For the rest of us being computer safe means buying a good virus protection program and hoping that a hacker - insane brilliant intelligent but unwise person - doesn't turn their internet criminal activity on us.

What can a hacker do to the average citizen?

 

The hacker or the person who bypasses computer code such as password protection software code can erase your computers memory. They can put spiders, or little robot agents on your hard drive which will either malfunction your computer or worst tell them what you are up to at any given time. They can manipulate your freedom.

Hackers or computer code gurus are just one type of internet scam artists that threaten the safety of good people. Stories abound of people who run internet scams by simply building fraudulent websites or sites that look identical to authentic sites. What are these hackers up to ?

They want to gather information on you or they want to steal from you.

So cybercrime is indeed the biggest security threat of the future for more than the reason that people who know the power of secret languages can use those languages to manipulate those who do not belong to the inner circle. Those who are in that circle are the modern day high priests who serve the king priests.

Forget about religion being your biggest problem. Religion is the least of your problems.

Modern technology is the biggest of your problems. Internet and intranet and the world wide web is the biggest of your problems.

Your child who is learning to hack into his or her game boy or x box is the biggest security threat of the future and my biggest threat.

Will the world survive these quantum leaps of internet and computer technology or ICT?