Cyber Security & Blackmail: Time Favor Hacker

The term blackmail first appeared in 1552. It was a term used by Scottish chiefs to extort protection money from would be targets.Pay a sum of money to the chiefs and avoid a bad consequence.Here we are 500 plus years later and blackmail in various forms still exist. It's not as open and comparatively more honest as the example set by the Scottish war lords. The sums of money are greater and harder to track who is behind the threat.The greater threat is the forced change of policies in government or business that can have disastrous consequnces. Agatha Christie among other fictional writers wove intriguing stories about envelopes in locked drawers that were the key to fortunes in money and power if exposed.But there are no more incriminating envelopes or simple locked containers that could be opened with a simple blow. No. All the information is now behind cyber security.It never goes away.An envelope can be torn up. And the cause for criminal leverage disappears. But cyber info never dies. It just is there. And hackers eventually will find it.Time is on the side of the hacker.Simple security would be never write down anything you would regret having some else read.

New Book " Confront and Conceal" Isn't New

The New York Times reporter David Sanger's Best Seller ," Confront And Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars And Surprising Use of American Power" is causing hands to wring. Or so Sanger's publicist tells us. The book lifts a veil that hid America's partnership with Israel in using constructive acts of cyber-war against Iran's nuclear program. So? Has Sanger forgot about the preemptive war of choice on Iraq? George W. Bush and Congress have backed a preemptive war policy. That effectively gives the Office of The Presidency unlimited power to take our country to war. War is too importatnt to be allowed by only one person. Even if that person is backed by Congress. War should only be allowed if a National referendum is taken of the electorate.

More and more of these preemptive wars may invite assassinations of members of our government.