The Internet is a bad Neighborhood

The Internet has become a cesspool of theft, blackmail and extortion. The complete lack of
security means that anyone can be a victim from a teenage girl all the way up to government
institutions like OPM.

More then a decade ago I gave a security presentation at the NNSA. I compared the Internet to a vast neighborhood where anyone could throw a rock through your window, not just the delinquent down the block . Since that time it has only gotten dramatically worse with predators and police states able to collect peoples most private data.   Hackers can now throw "rocks" that can damage or destroy medical equipment or nuclear power plants.

#OPM

I have decided to rename this blog Guarding Wisdom in Cyberspace and to start posting more

consistently. I had always planned on talking about information security, but with all the lies,

noise and disinformation on the Internet I have decided to expand the scope. We need to protect

the data on the computers of individuals, corporations and clearly our government. We also need

to protect information on the Internet that is true and useful even if powerful belligerents want to

blow that data off of cyberspace.