The second greatest threat to our national security comes from cyberspace. Any threat that can be imagined my neighbor ten feet away can make real. I'm not referring to the humble imaginations of those of us not even on the fringe, but the minds of skilled, brilliant people who lie abed dreaming how to recover from in-cloud attacks on our military and commercial infrastructure. Such is the power of imagination that we can be laid low by ideas made real. It turns out, however, that the worst attack we can imagine can not be as bad as what happens the next day when the response of the people to the event takes hold and we begin a relentless and inevitable course toward self destruction. Or not! And therein lies great hope. Such is the power of imagination that we can also save ourselves by ideas made real.
I recommend that all of you look at the site:
http://defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-index.html
I love this site. I have spent hours trolling its links and reading tangential information, dreaming about being clever enough to grasp even the smallest scrap of what my eyes gaze upon.
For instance, I still look quizzically at an orange and wonder to myself, what really am I seeing? Generally, I live in a cozy haze of common acceptance of orangedom. But what if I saw things differently? What if orangedom had a far greater field of expression and relevance if I but grasped the concepts inherent in its locus in the universe? I'd be getting somewhere, then.
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