Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Cybersecurity: This House Believes That a Hyperconnected World is More Rather Than Less Secure

"Cybersecurity:  This House Believes That a Hyperconnected World is More Rather Than Less Secure. " The Economist,  July 3, 2012.

From the debate: "The more we entwine technology in our daily lives, the more security failures seem inevitable, because many of these originate not from technology failure, but from human weaknesses and errors. A hyperconnected world only amplifies this…. The crux of Mr Day's argument is that as people become more exposed to a networked world, they will become less sophisticated about security. Are we really entering a new Dark Age in which we will become collectively dumber the more we interact with new technologies?" Read more