Thursday, April 26, 2012

Cybersecurity Myths: Beware the Hype

Click here to access article by Zachary Katznelson & Jay Stanley from American Civil Liberties Union.

The political operatives of the One Percent are at it again: spreading fear in order to enact more control and surveillance over the internet to limit your freedom of expression.
Alarming cybersecurity stories continue to appear in the media. Even an attentive reader of the news over the past half-decade could be forgiven for believing that hackers have infiltrated the U.S. electricity grid, caused blackouts, and vandalized a local U.S. utility. When examined closely, however, none of those incidents holds up as an example of the dangers of cybersecurity vulnerabilities....