Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Human Security Failure: Who is the thief?

hacker No matter how much effort that ones put in to secure an area, someone, somehow, need to enter that area -- an inevitable vulnerability of human security. This is why security can never be secure.

Security exists because of human's mentality of "possession", ownership, and their unwillingness to share. When they grab the portion of the Earth resources more than what they need, they're actually self-realizing that they're in fact STEALING other people's needs, and even the needs of other species on the planet Earth. This is why they strive to think of 1001 ways to protect themselves from their own guilt.

When Gary McKinnon hacked into U.S. government’s system in order to find the truth of UFO, who is the thief? The one who is hiding the truth from the citizens for the sake of their secret agenda or the one who is trying to find out the truth and reveal it to the public? Meanwhile, nobody questions about the negligence of an expensive and highly guarded government security system but focusing merely on a poor individual with just a personal computer hooking up to the Internet. How about those who’re supposedly to responsible for the government security? Are they guilty? Should they apologize and confess to the citizens for not doing a good job to protect the country’s confidential data, which may allow other country’s secret agent or terrorists to threaten the national security? Should they be punished instead of Gary? Without Gary, would they know about the vulnerability of their security system? They should be grateful that the one who hacked into was Gary, not the terrorists. If you tell me terrorist bribed Gary, I will tell you who bribed Osama Bin Laden.

When a secure area has been broken into, the security system and the thief are always the entities to be blamed on but not the greediness and selfishness of the victim. If improvement needs to be made, it is always the security system that needs to be improved so that those who're greedy can be more greedy; those who're selfish can be more selfish. If we don't fix our selfishness, the human security issues can never be ended. If we say that "human selfishness can never be fixed", then why are we keep fixing the security issue that can never stopped then?

“The door and window are always more vulnerable than the padlock.” (Antonio, 2009)

“I have no secret to protect because I do not want to live within the box of my own secret.” (Antonio, 2009)

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