BTW - I'm Back~!

After a long summer break I'm back at the keyboard and fired up and ready to go!

I'll be posting about my involvement in the Barack Oboma campaign and expanding my writing beyond information security. I noted from other bloggers that there is an eb and flow to the tide of information that passes across the screen and that information isn't always information security related.

However one of the most pressing issues of our day from a security perspective is privacy and control of data. What data looks like and the forms it takes manifest a host of issues ranging from ID theft to state sponsored cyber war.

It is clear to those that I speak to and myself that data isn't just bits and bytes anymore the binary code of our world represents far more than we imagine and has transformed, very silently, into raw power. The power to control, the power to destroy, and yes the power to kill.

Those that have the power of sight that is enabled by data awareness have more control and power over the rest of the population. With a single click of a mouse or keystroke millions of people can be affected in any aspect of life.

This is significant in that before the transformation and level of integration we have today paper based systems limited the power that an individual could have over a population. The human factor of checks and balances was unto itself a control that with the maturation of the digital age was traded off without even the idea of raising the question of cost to mankind as a whole and the individual.

Individualism is one of the cornerstones of what it means to be a United States citizen. Have we completely given that up in favor for convenience, fast food, and having our every whim met with a super corporate spoon feeding.

The spoon feeding of American goes way beyond the food we eat or the car we drive. The shape of the American mind seems to be spoon feed with controlled information that is neatly packaged into sound bytes. So the next time you watch fox or any nightly news cast don't listen to the person sitting there spoon feeding you the "newertainment" watch how they "act" the part and look for the ab-libbing. For me information is naked and cold and any meaning that is given is done so by people who want to shape, dress, and package the information to meet an agenda that is not your own.