Friday, December 19, 2014

Don't click on email links you aren't sure of especially if you are at work

Especially if you work for the U.S. government because those links could contain malware that you might click on in your Emails. They might be from foreign governments trying to penetrate your company or governmental department.

There has to be some way to make sure people who work for companies know which "unknown" links that they should never click on. Even when they click in these links it might just be  picture of a naked woman or man or anything literally and people wouldn't know at all that they just let malware into the system because they aren't trained as Computer Techs or Computer Security people.

So, the weak links in all this are the people who shouldn't really be allowed online at work. So, unless the companies and the governments of the world deal with this whole companies and governments could be lost to Governmental or criminal hackers or even terrorist hackers.

Government hackers would more likely want to drain other governments of money and the same with Criminal hackers.

The danger of terrorist hackers is worse because they might cause power outages, dams breaking or releasing water when they aren't supposed to etc.

In other words terrorist hackers not connected with any government directly would be out for deaths not money or information.

However, this is the usual way that foreign governments start to get control of governmental or company systems.

So, workarounds must be found to protect companies and the Federal Government from people less knowledgeable or just people who are careless or bored online at their jobs while sitting online at their computers.


Because this now is a recognized International Security threat of greater magnitude than was publicly known before maybe some actions can finally be taken internationally to solve these simple but difficult to manage now international problems.

Because the problem is not coming from what people might have thought before, it is coming from bored workers at their computers around the world.

Here is the problem as I see it.

If there are 100 employees at a company or governmental department anywhere on earth and 99 are perfectly aware of what not to do and someone brings their child to work one day and let's them play on their computer, that person or that child could endanger the whole system in one click of their mouse and put under a whole company like Sony or a whole nation by so doing.

This is the unfortunate reality of today on online computers worldwide.

This is also why I think the world is going to have to either end the Internet as it is or greatly change it in some way to protect nation states, corporations, companies and individuals worldwide from being destroyed, becoming bankrupt or other kinds of harm taking place.

One person with an online connection in solitary confinement in prison anywhere could literally bring down the whole world when nobody was watching if they had the right experience and training.

Think about this for a moment.

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