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Perhaps the reason most of us don't experience the risks is because the nature of cyber warfare is more subtle than any other form of warfare in history. Social
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Perhaps the reason most of us don't experience the risks is because the nature of cyber warfare is more subtle than any other form of warfare in history. Social engineers prefer to be undetectable, that means they're doing it right.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoThen it's hard to tell where the line between (cyber) warfare and social engineering can be drawn. Is what Facebook did[1] (does?) warfare? I sometimes like to dabble in hyperbolic alarmism, so I'm inclined to want to say yes. Maybe it's a sign of progress that we now consider emotional manipulation "war". It's probably less harmful, by all accounts, than slaughtering each other. 1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...
- wu-ikkyu 10y agoI agree on all accounts. Facebook testing emotional manipulation is corporate psyops weapons development. Marshall McLuhan postulated back in the 1970 about the future of warfare: >World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb... >World War III is a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation
- eternalvision 10y agoCult-driven intellectual authorities believe that designing and firing rainbow glitter embedded bullets of absolute power at rebels is a justified path to social control. Tech such as FB's is misused accordingly.