Just Say "No!" to the NWO

The Future of the Internet - Lawrence Lessig, Joichi Ito and Phil Rosedale

The fight to control the Internet and censor the information we have access to is coming. There has been speculation about such an event for years. When 9/11 occurred, I did IT support for Occidental Petroleum Corporation and later I would also do IT support for British Petroleum. I remember hearing coworkers talking between the cubicles about a small commuter plane hitting the World Trade Center. A short while later the anxiousness rose as people started talking about another plane hitting the WTC. Accessing sites like CNN became impossible due to the huge amount of traffic on the Internet that day. Soon managers carted TV's from the break rooms into the work area and we all watched the events unfold in shock and utter horror.

The company I worked for disconnected from the Internet and all access outside of our Intranet was cut. The multiple corporations that we supported also cut their connections to the Internet. The fear was that there would be a widespread and concurrent attack on the Internet. The logical thing to do was to cut all connections to try safeguarding our networks.

Later I transferred to a contract with BP and I eventually worked the night shift to take advantage of the pay differential. During the middle of my shift something strange happened. All of our SQL databases had been attacked. I spoke with coworkers that worked on contracts for other companies and was shocked to find out that multiple Fortune 500 companies were experiencing the same problem. I knew what had happened was a big deal because this isn't the sort of thing that happens every day. Later, the attack would come to be known as the SQL slammer worm.

The attack was only a proof of concept worm. It was something unleased to spread for the sake of spreading. Luckily it didn't contain a more malicious payload. Although there was coverage of the event, it seems doubtful to me that many people recognize the significance of that attack. It was a clear illustration of how vulnerable our IT infrastructure is across the globe. Even corporations who tend to have hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars worth of security to protect their assets, none were really safe.

Fast forward 5 years. Are we any less vulnerable? Sadly the answer is no. A small group of hackers who are determined can take entire countries off the Internet. The government of any country could fund attacks quite easily. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of computers infected with malicious software that can be used to anonymously unleash a campaign of chaos. However, there is a growing focus on security that is having positive results.

The mistake is to think we can ever perfect technology to the point that attacks will be impossible. A time-tested method loved by the elite is to create a threat and then to step in with a solution to mitigate the problem. There are many who would welcome a major attack on the Internet because it would allow them to step in and provide legislation to combat the problem. Thinktanks are famous for doing this sort of thing. For example, within 20 days of 9/11 we had the Patriot Act delivered to Congress. The scope of the laws were incredibly vast and had been laying in wait for the right event to gain the support of politicians.

What form such an attack will come in is hard to say because the possibilities are vast. It could come in the form of an attack on the power grid of the United States and possibly other countries. Waste water management is another potentially vulnerable system, though it's probably not not a threat to the same extent that the power grid is. The air traffic control system is another system that is critical and could become a greater threat over time. Hospital and health care medical systems are another point of vulnerability which could be scary just because of the amount of personal information contained within them.

Then perhaps the most worrisome is the Milnet or military internets across the world. This would be the most difficult target of all, especially in places like the United States where the military Internet is partitioned from the public Internet. Furthermore, the compartmentalized nature of military operations would provide further challenges. That doesn't make it impossible though. In fact it could become a byproduct of a worm that becomes widespread enough.

What most people probably don't realize is that humans are the weakest point in the chain of security. There is a history of hacking attacks, sometimes accomplished by teenagers, going back into the 1980's which have penetrated military security. For national security reasons we don't know the full extent of the attacks, but there have been some publicized cases over the years. Often the military wasn't specifically targeted. However, when someone is looking for targets they may sometimes come across a system that violates the security standards of the military. This could be something as simple as an open WiFi system which is added without authorization.

Most likely in such a scenario the attack would come through the back door by infecting systems used by military contractors with high levels of clearance. It could also happen by a breach of security where someone takes home a computer that should be used only in secure areas. Such things have happened and will probably continue to happen in the future.

What can't be doubted is that all of these things have been done on a sporadic basis. The missing element at this point is malicious intent combined with the ability to deliver the threat. At some point such an attack will be launched and it will come as a shock, but not a complete surprise to those who have knowledge of the security issues and human issues involved. What concerns me is that we might over react.

Many corporations and many people would willingly submit to potentially draconian new laws under the right circumstances. We can put aside my argument that certain powerful government or elite civilian elements would be behind it, because that isn't the most important of my points. There would definitely be individuals and talking heads on TV who would stupidly say, "I support these new laws. If you aren't doing anything wrong, then what do you have to fear?"

Those types of individuals are a threat to all of our liberties. The single most responsible cause of security problems are humans who violate basic principles of security and greedy corporations who take shortcuts in order to save money. We must all take responsibility for our own actions rather than punish the collective of Internet users in one or more countries.

No government in the world has the right to take our liberty. Our rights don't extend from government, but from God or spirit. What we are talking about risking is the ability to freely share information, to congregate in privacy, and to share views that are not always in the best interest of those who wield great power. Furthermore, anonymous access is a right that we can't deny. It doesn't make sense to allow harm to come to those who would be persecuted or silenced by power.

The gap between the haves and the have-nots has been growing for a long time now. Sadly those who have the most to be thankful for in terms of power and money, sometimes have nothing better to do than accumulate more power and money. Most of us go about our days without thinking about these individuals because they aren't in the scope of what we can relate to. However, they do exist and in my opinion are servants of evil.

Regardless of whether you agree with me or not, I assert that we can never allow our freedoms to be taken. Some things are too valuable to stand by and watch disappear. If and when the I-9/11 attack comes, we must recognize that the attack isn't the thing to be feared. The response to the attack is what we need to fear. That turned out to be the case with 9/11 and I believe it will be the case for I-9/11.

There comes a time in every great struggle to stand up and be counted. That time has come for my generation. The New World Order is not a conspiracy theory, rather it is a reality which can only exist if it hides in secrecy. The latest strike against the movement for truth has been against Alex Jones. The British Government is censoring two of Alex Jones most popular websites, including PrisonPlanet.com and InfoWars.com. There are widespread reports of British Telecom blocking access to these sites, along with what many in the United States would consider mainstream political blogs.

Does this sounds like a wacky conspiracy theory? Perhaps it would be relegated to the trash bin of crazy theories, if the evidence exposing the attacks was not already well documented. The UK government talks haughtily about Chinese censorship, while at the same time the UK government is behind more grievous acts of censorship. We must demand the immediate and permanent end of all censorship of PrisonPlanet, InfoWars, and ThinkProgress.org.

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