Now that the NHL is back in business and Bettman's evil empire has been dealt a non-lethal blow, let us turn attention to more salient subjects like modern communications, one of my favourite topics since I am so cyber-bound myself.
After listening to all-night radio talk on the mother network, I scratched out a few notes to relay to you, dear diary. Wasn't that considerate of me? That meant you didn't have to stay up all night.
The point being made on this BBC-CBC program was that the globe that we so enjoy living on is completely compromised against cyber attacks. Makes you just wanna cuddle up under your favourite comforter, doesn't it?
The documentary first visited with an unidentified cyber hacker who goes by the name of Q on WikiLeaks. The 20-year-old noted that at the age of 12, he had hacked into and compromised the government network in Iceland, his home country. He then broke into the defence ministry of a "major country," which he did not name, since his intent was not evil. He just did it because he could.
Out of boredom, he then hacked into the account of another well known hacker in hacker kingdom and sabotaged his work. In return, the victim hacked into this guy's car and messed up all his electronics. So not to be outdone, our Icelandic friend sought revenge by issuing a formal death certificate for his cyber friend. It could have been worse, he said. He could have officially bankrupted his pseudo cyber friend like one of the other hackers did to avenge some misdeed performed by a fourth hacker. And so on it goes.
These are the real war games they play. This wasn't a plot for Big Bang Theory or a Nintendo wannabe.
This 20-year-old Icelander states he is now getting bored with the hacking scene. The world is compromised ... so what? He figures it might be time to be a little more constructive. After all, he is out of his teens and feeling a little more mature.
The interviewer asked him if maybe he might be afraid of doing that, because he could be exposed and charged for his activities.
The young man simply chuckled.
"Not really, there are no real laws to prevent it."
We next heard from another hacker who goes by the moniker of Commander X.
He found great amusement in the fact that Canada's best defenders can't even install anti-spam applications. We have no computer laws to speak of, let alone any kind of privacy legislation that would make them pause.
Canadian industry could be held up any time these jokesters cared to do it. They cited the fact there are 17,000 health care applications that can be stolen as they sit in apparent security on the Cloud.
Dream on McDuff.
Password protected? It is to laugh.
Their next challenge, they figured, was to "read minds." They want to explore the world of neuroscience as it relates to cyber explorations.
When it came to the subject of energy security, again it was treated as a joke. Fraud, theft of services or intellectual properties, delivering an official corrupted message? Literally child's play.
And remember, these were the good guys.
The message was ... it's a linked-in world and all links are compromised before they see the light of mass consumption.
The documentary began to wind down and I began to get a bit fuzzy with sleep deprivation ... probably caused by some hacker, so I ended my note taking and slid down into that aforementioned comforter and felt a lot better. They'll never find me there.
