The Global Battle to Steal your Secrets

or as Time Magazine calls it: "World War Zero"

What is Zero Day Vulnerability?

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A zero day vulnerability refers to a hole in software that is unknown to the vendor. This security hole is then exploited by hackers before the vendor becomes ...

As there are more and more versions of software(literally thousands to millions now) many hackers find it more profitable not to tell vendors of their zero day vulnerabilities and instead sell these vulnerabilities for hundreds of thousands of dollars each time they sell them world wide to people who want to profit from these zero day vulnerabilities.

As the Internet began to monetize during the 1990s and after it became more and more profitable for hackers rather than to tell vendors about the security holes in their software to sell this information instead to the highest bidders (or any bidders at all) both governmental, corporate and criminal worldwide.

So, now we have a literal world war conducted not on vendors but on you the 7 billion users out there of software on Cell phones, smart phones, Ipads, computers etc. Every bit and byte of information is useful to someone somewhere and usually many someones and somewheres around the world for some useful or nefarious purpose.

Knowing this might help you to survive all this in the future and to better protect yourselves and your children to survive physically and financially on into the future. 

A Software Bug's Life 

(in Time magazine it just says "A Bugs Life" which is a play on the Disney movie by the same name)

begin quote page 20 and 21 on Time magazine cover "World War Zero"

A Bug's Life

All software has flaws. 

What happens when you find one?

It can be fixed or sold

1. Analyze some software

finding flaws takes high level skills.

You're looking for major errors that creators

missed.

2.find a vulnerability

A true zero day has to be

(1) serious enough that it's a security 

problem and (2) presently unknown

You can then alert the vendor.

You can quietly altruistically alert the

software company about the problem

or someone can:

3.Sell the information to:

A. a Bug Broker

B.The Software Maker

C.The government

D. Criminals

E. Foreign governments

4. Collect your Riches

Serious vulnerabilities in popular

applications and operating systems can

be worth 5 or 6 figure sums

Go back to number 1.

end quote from graphic on page 20 and 21 of the Time Magazine cover "World War Zero"

MY SOLUTION to this problem:

Would be to establish Non-Profits whose sole purpose would be to protect the public Worldwide.

They would be funded starting with donations and then by hiring hackers to find vulnerabilities. The hackers would be paid to find these vulnerabilities to sell back to software makers to protect their customers from harm worldwide. This is one way to lessen this problem on into the future. 

They also could protect governments and corporations from collapsing by informing governments and corporations of holes  in their software too.