Perhaps it’s a bit irresponsible, even hypocritical, of me to say (in my best Nelson Muntz voice) Haaa-ha to the news that Chinese Army Hackers have infiltrated pretty much all U.S. government computers, and plenty of our larger corporations computers as well. After all, hacking is wrong and I resent it like hell when my stuff gets messed with.
Should We Be Worried?
On the other hand, hacking is nothing compared to the shit our government gets away with everyday and I can’t quite see how the world would be worse if China, and everybody else, knew in advance what kind of shit we were planning to pull. It might even prevent conflict.
And, if the U.S. government was planning on attacking China, that would have been a bonehead thing to do and it’s good they got stopped before they got started.
The funny thing is, the U.S. government figured out who was hacking them through information that Anonymous, the international hacker PAC that the U.S. government would like to throw in jail, made public in 2011.
I also find it comical that, despite the fact that the Swedish government and the British Government are totally co-operating with the American government to keep Julian Assange holed up inside the Ecaudorian embassy, the U.S. government got hacked anyway.
Despite keeping Bradley Manning in jail without any trial for years, they got hacked anyway.
Now the Chinese know all the American government’s secrets – but the American people don’t.
There’s so much to say about this, and there will be more (I suspect the story is far from over) but for now let me offer this:
The internet is a form of artificial intelligence, the emerging group mind of homo-sapiens. It is obviously an adolescent mind, obsessed with sex (and porn). It is a mind filled with trivialities. It is also a schizophrenic mind. While some people are posting cute pictures of kittens, some are posting hate. While some are screaming from the right, others are screaming from the left.
But when one part of that mind keeps secrets from the other parts, schizophrenia is the result. Fortunately, the internet is a land without borders, a land where the information flows like water, as swift and clear as a mountain stream. It is a mind which is trying to get past its schizophrenia, trying to pull it all together.
And it is evolving far faster than any government.
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