Hacking Banks-Is this a " real solution " or will it just bring more laws and regulations??
 

Press Release:
The banks have been getting away with murder, fraud, conspiracy, war profiteering, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, have put millions of people out on the street without food or shelter and have successfully bought all our governments to help keep us silenced. We represent the voice of the voiceless. We are uniting to make a stand. The central banks which were attacked in recent days were attacked to remind people that the biggest threat we face to an open and free society is the banks. The bankers are the problem and #OpIcarus is the solution.

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/05/...-blackout.html

This writer easily reveals his sensationalist bias by saying ... "and [XXX] is the solution."

However, this does confirm that "the public," and "government," is being compelled to finally look at the situation and to do something about it ... which means, "law and regulation." (Which, actually, is not a bad thing.)

What we should all be prepared for, is the (IMHO™) necessary observation that most, if not all, of these "unstoppable capers" are going to turn out to be inside jobs. (In some cases, untrustworthy corporations who are running "conveniently-inexpensive 'outsourcing' operations." The long-standing American insanity of the "H-1B non-immigrant visa program" (which basically creates an unconstitutional system of 'indentured servants' in this country, courtesy of the INS), and, perhaps nearest to our hearts, the "one-man coffee-shop 'company'" which has carte blanche access to everything.

All of these things are going to go away change ... and, change soon.

To be a computer programmer at all, you must either have a federally-issued license, or work under the auspices of a licensed software contractor. While this might sound strange and even obscene to you, "plumbers do it all the time." So do electricians, framers, and low-voltage lighting people. Basically, everyone who works on "tangible things," such as houses and buildings.

The threat that "a lowly computer-programmer" can pose, if s/he is willing to abuse the position, is infinitely greater than a falling building. We can say that our systems are secure, but "they aren't, if we are not."

The present phenomenon of "big data" will also go away be radically reduced, as people begin to comprehend their own insane vulnerability ... and, they start mounting (and, winning) massive lawsuits.

We might see banking and other nation-critical applications switch to closed-source software, issued by the "United States Department of Data," and monitored by its minions. :eek:

Basically, "you can 'get away with' a lot of things for quite some time. (Although, really, it's only been about ten years going on fifteen ...) You can 'make a lot of money,' and we all know that 'a lot of money' ... :rolleyes: ... "carries an undue amount of weight in 'certain towns,' such as the one 'town' in America that is in no State at all." But, eventually, enough people start to realize that they are threatened, and to identify the source or probable-cause of that threat, and that's when regulation happens.

Sensationalistic articles like this one, packed with easy answers, "will come first." But, they'll be followed. (In fact, they already are, in magazines such as The Atlantic. Quite regularly now, in fact ...

It's coming, folks. And it's gonna change everything.

That press release literally states: so I assert you're NOT aware what you're tolerating (or worse: endorsing) by promoting this without taking a stance against it?..

Because if you would be aware that would be a nasty game changer IMNSHO.

I took that line, of course, literally from the last line of the LXer summary post.

"Yeah, it's a game-changer." And, our "game" is going to be changed (I think ...), in very-much this way, whether we "endorse" the idea or not.

In the early days, computers were stuck in air-conditioned rooms and they really didn't touch our lives. Then, the "personal" computer came, and, for a time, that's what it was. But the Internet came along, and suddenly we were creating Internet-connected, fly-by-wire cars. Suddenly, everyone had a phone in their pocket, and we began tracking their every footfall ... and sending that data, basically without their knowledge, "somewhere in the world."

And we completely ignored the human side of "computer security," in our quest for "cheap(er) labor." What we require of plumbers, carpenters, and wiring-guys, we not only "do not require of our own industry," but howl in protest (a "game-changer") if the idea is suggested.

Well, it is being suggested, because the h-u-m-a-n nature of the underlying problem is becoming more and more obvious. There's going to be "sweeping legislation," world-wide. We can't stop it from happening, so we'd better be trying now to positively influence it.

And, yes: the coffee-shop industry will never again be the same.

There are very few advantages to being an old man!! Being " on the way out " means that I will not have to long suffer the " bad turns " our society is going to eventually make in the very near future!! I look back and ponder over many things that were just plain wrong for all of humanity!! It would be real nice if our species did not have so many " bad apples "!!

:rolleyes: You're not that old until you're looking-up at your own gravestone. Unfortunately, humanity has always had "bad apples" and has always made bone-headed mistakes. That is never going to change.

We can look to the past to see how we eventually handled various "grand technological changes," such as the telephone, but even that is a very poor simile in this case. There really isn't a historical precedent for any of this.