What have we wrought?

What have we wrought?

By Gerald Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

06.28.09

The civilian sector has picked up the fight

in support of the Iranian people.

So far the civilian sector has help provide

encrypted secret channels of communication

for the Iranian people.

And made the effort so the "Whole world

is watching" phenomenon.

And indeed the whole world is watching.

Including our enemies, al Qaeda, Taliban

and criminals.

The civilian sector has not introduced any

new technology just put many of them together

to defeat the Iranian Inrtelligence services.

While I am proud of the Iranian people and

the Iranian cyber Mujahideen.

But it gives me pause.

We have tracked down and traced

45 terrorist webmasters and hackers.

Al Quada and taliban.

Now they will start using the same technology

for secure communications.

And the cycle begins again,

to try and find a way in to their

com links and channels.

And then I remember the start of the

WWW, and its predecessor Bulletin boards.

Back when no one even sold security programs.

Everybody could run the Internet naked,

no security at all.

And I long for the days of no security

and privacy.

But al Qaeda changed all that.

I have expended a large part of my

career developing the technology

to track and trace terrorist on the WWW.

But now the world must worry about

the terrorist, nukes, and criminals.

And how the web enables them.

The trade off of the civilians of the

world is to help Iranian people

knowing the terrorist and criminals

will also use the same secure programs.

They made the choice and sacrifice.

I salute them.

Gerald

Tactical InternetSystems analyst

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