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You've probably seen all of the articles lately on both Mainstream and Alternative news sites. "NSA Recruits Hackers" "FBI Enlists Hackers help in digital sting", etc...etc...And if you've happen to notice, this type of activity and newsprint is becoming much more common place today. Could this be because the NSA & FBI (Along with several other agencies) doesn't have the technical skillz necessary to combat Cyber-Crime, and/ or Cyber-Terrorism? Even with all there vast funding and expertise, do they really need the help of hackers? HARDLY! These agencies recruit degreed Computer Professionals from within corporate private sectors and Universities, not some high school midnight Hackers! It's not the Technical aspect of the Feds troubles that is the problem there facing. There Problems are in the sheer numbers of net citizens and Hackers that are not willing to submit to there control and intrusions. You see, it's not about recruiting hackers to aid the battle on cyber-crime. It's all about control. Hackers are being used by government agencies all right, but is it for the purpose that is being claimed? Or is it possible that this is only the beginning of a governmental plan that runs much deeper then what is only visible at the surface level. And the Hackers that are involved - "all pawns in the game". The game of "Divide & Conquer"...
This article "Divide & Conquer" is written exclusively for the TEOAS publication by "§ilentwing§" BS in psychology, statistician and Cultural researcher with many years experience in the above & related fields. It is the second in her series of underground cultural topics.
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Human technology is outevolving human nature. As technological advances are becoming more prevalent at an alarmingly fast pace, many of us fall by the wayside trying to understand and keep up with those advances. Those with a natural aptitude are far fewer than those of us who have to struggle through the implications of the technology which has become a part of the lives of so many. A new world order is evolving right before us and many panic from the implications of that, especially governments who see their lack of control over this new order as a threat to their own powers.
One way governments can try to maintain control is to gain the knowledge for themselves and compete for supremacy. One way to gain such knowledge is to recruit from among the very people they villify as dissidents, namely script kiddies and hackers. Those who can be bought are bought while the rest are labeled as anti-government and criminals. Okay, so a hacker can find security holes in Os's and applications that most of us use on a daily basis. So what... If their purpose was to snoop into systems why tell about the security breaches that are found? Would you rather not know who's snooping or could be snooping around in your system? Invasion of privacy? What privacy? There is none and never has been. That's an illusion that most of us prefer to live with. Your next door neighbor probably knows as much about you as you do yourself. And I bet he didn't have to find a security hole in your applications to know it, either. People tend to forget that if you don't want something to be known about yourself, then the subject matter is best left unsaid to begin with... because regardless of the medium used to say it, someone will always know.
Humans are social animals and cannot survive well in isolation. The script kiddies of today are no different from the young adolescents who used to peep into girls' windows in the middle of the night, or write graffitti on walls making a statement of their own, usually to bring notice to themselves in a world that doesn't spend much time thinking of kids as people, too. "All the world's a stage".. William Shakespeare. In truth today, all the world is a stage as technology has delivered it into the hands of the masses.
So, why the governmental interference and the ongoing fight for free speech and the advancement of knowledge? Because the government wants and must maintain control in order to survive itself. Freedom of speech itself is an illusion that most journalists have been trying to make a reality for centuries. As an example, Kennedy vs. Clinton. What's the difference? (okay, so Monica Lewinski isn't a Marilyn Monroe). The point is one made media headlines while the other did very little except raise a few eyebrows from time to time, neither of which incident would have any bearing on whether either was capable of leading a nation, but in the most recent case it did accomplish something: a division within the ranks of a political party. The story was 'allowed' to become public knowledge and fanned flames of outrage throughout the nation within some parts of society, while other parts did little more than raise an eyebrow from time to time. But the division gave another political faction more power.
The word hacker according to the dictionary basically means a tinkerer or someone who tinkers. The dictionary doesn't specify a certain thing a hacker tinkers with. By that definition, many of us in the general population could be called hackers. The word has become a negative label for a group of tinkerers who happen to be very good at tinkering with something the general population has little or no knowledge about... : computers. The word hacker engenders in most people's minds with the picture of someone sitting in a darkened room nosying around on the net, writing out code to breach the security of countless computers for nefarious purposes, be it corporate espionage, snooping in someone's email or whatever. Granted, hackers can do that and more.... but as in one of my opening statements, so what? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you will or should. It's a matter of choice. Hackers are as much a part of society as any other culture. They have the knowledge that government wants, to preserve a way of life that is dying. The governments want control and have none. The media has become little more than a governmental ragbag to cut off the very people who could advance that knowledge. Very seldom do you see an article about what the culture has done that has advanced knowledge and when there is such an article it is placed in such a way that it receives very little notice from the general population.
Such is the way of politics.... divide and conquer. The divisions within the culture itself are a threat as differences in philosophies among the leaders create gaps in the sharing of knowledge while garnering power to each faction for an intercultural war. The only thing left for the governments to do will be to monitor the war from the outside and woo contenders with promises of wealth and power, while those who don't "sell out" are labeled dissidents and criminals. The dissidents and criminals (usually the notorious script kiddies) are used to fan public outrage and fear. As public outrage and fear escalates, lines are drawn in the proverbial sand as factions form to compete with each other for supremacy.
Remember your history lessons... Lincoln once stated that a divided nation cannot stand. How so can anything stand divided against itself? A culture divided becomes a dead culture. There will always be hackers in one form or another, hiding out in the darkened rooms for fear of discovery, but will the culture itself survive? If so, how will it survive?
This author writes from a personal perspective based on conclusions drawn from psychological, sociological, scientific, and historical research. None of the views contained within the article can be attributed to any one piece of research but are a composite of the writer's own worldview.
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