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Paul Craig Roberts Fears "The Exponential Growth Of Global Insecurity"

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

There is no such thing as cyber security. The only choice is more security or less security, as the recent hack of the National Security Agency demonstrates.

Hackers stole from NSA a cyber weapon, which has been used in attacks (at time of writing) on 150 countries, shutting down elements of the British National Health Service, the Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica, automakers Renault and Nissan, Russia’s Interior Ministry, Federal Express, the energy company PetroChina, and many more.

Instagram Suffers Worldwide Outage After Launching Snapchat-Copycat Filters

Instagram Suffers Worldwide Outage After Launching Snapchat-Copycat Filters

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app owned by Facebook Inc., suffered a widespread outage on Tuesday just as it was rolling out a new feature.

The outage occurred in the early afternoon, with users first reporting around 1:09 ET, according to Downdetector.com, a website that monitors outages on popular social media and web-based platforms. As of 4 p.m. ET, it was mostly resolved.

Predictably, users took to Twitter to commiserate and troll the social-media giant.

The Exponential Growth of Insecurity

The Exponential Growth of Insecurity

Paul Craig Roberts

There is no such thing as cyber security. The only choice is more security or less security, as the recent hack of the National Security Agency demonstrates.

Hackers stole from NSA a cyber weapon, which has been used in attacks (at time of writing) on 150 countries, shutting down elements of the British National Health Service, the Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica, automakers Renault and Nissan, Russia’s Interior Ministry, Federal Express, the energy company PetroChina, and many more.

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