Illustrations by Kyle Hilton for Foreign Policy
In 1984, a science fiction movie starring an up-and-coming
Austrian-American actor took the box office by storm. A cybernetic
organism is sent back in time to seek out and kill the mother of a great
war hero to prevent his subsequent birth. The cyborg scans a phone book
page and begins methodically killing all women named Sarah Connor in
the Los Angeles area, starting at the top of the list.
If The Terminator were set in today’s world, the movie would
have ended after four and a half minutes. The correct Sarah Connor
would have been identified with nothing but a last name and a zip
code—information leaked last year in the massive Equifax data breach.
The war against the machines would have been over before it started, and
no one would have ever noticed. The most frightening thing about
cyberwarfare is just how specifically targeted it can be: An enemy can
leap national boundaries to strike at a single person, a class of
people, or a geographic area.Nor would a cyborg be necessary today. According to U.S. census data, there are currently 87 people in the United States named Sarah Connor. Many of them probably drive cellular-enabled cars that run outdated firmware, use public unencrypted Wi-Fi, and visit doctors who keep unsecured health care records about patient allergies and current medications on computers running the infamously outdated and vulnerable Windows XP operating system.
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Rest of the article at the link below. I also tweeted at Tarah about my experience too ---> https://twitter.com/search?q=%40AnnaSophia777%20%40tarah&src=typd
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/12/in-cyberwar-there-are-no-rules-cybersecurity-war-defense/
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