If recession was the God`s way of teaching us about the basic economics, did Wikileaks his way of teaching us about the basic ICT security?
For the last couple of weeks we have witnessed the global media being dominated by the
news of the release of classified documents by Wikileaks.
Some argue that this have totally redefined the essence of diplomacy and international cooperations among nationals by forcing world leaders and prominent decision makers to go back on drawing boards. In addition to that, this also demonstrates the power of internet and technology.
The recent outbreak of cyber attacks as an act of revenge against the efforts to break down wikileaks have added another view to the saga and which is of my interested,"cyber-war".
It believed to be the world largest movements or organized attacks for a particular purposes. Websites of various online payment services companies such as Mastercard, VISA, Paypal..etc have been attacked and sometimes disrupted as a result.
From these sequence of events, as ICTs practitioners and wanazuoni, this leave us with the question on what do you think the future of ICT lies in terms of global information security and trust, democracy and freedom of expression, the notation of rights to be informed?