The disinformation about things like the coronavirus spreads in the net.

 The disinformation about things like the coronavirus spreads in the net.

The question of why people believe disinformation is that disinformation is pleasing them. Another reason is that people are looking for social relations with people who are similar to them. And the information that is shared on social media is coming from people who we want to please. And those people please us.

So we are not saying that person shares information that is not relevant because we were afraid to lose somebody that might seem important to us. If our friends are sharing the disinformation. We might not dare to resist the hoax information.

Or say that information is not correct or the shared information might be dangerous. The reason for that is we are afraid to hurt somebody in our social network. If some people who we use to think like an authority or who is the central person in our social network are sharing disinformation, we might want to obey that person. That means we might follow that person even if we know that is wrong. 

1) Misinformation means "not correct" or false information. That is not shared in purpose. 

2) Disinformation means the information that is shared in purpose. That purpose might hurt or damage the trust of the authorities. 

Another name for that kind of campaign is propaganda. The military term for that kind of action is PSY-OP or Psychological Operation. 

The most important targets for disinformation are people who are in influential positions. And one of the groups where the disinformation is targeted is journalists. If journalists are affected the information that is shared will turn more powerful. People trust the media and if somebody cheats the reporter that will turn information more powerful. 

The normal way to resist vaccines is to criticize them. Critical attitude means of course the denial attitude. A critical attitude means that person is investigating the background. But in the disinformation campaign, the criticism means that person is against some things like vaccines. In the same way, critical attitude against the refugees and foreigners is turned to denial attitude in the public language. 

So how do we recognize is something disinformation? One version of that thing is that only negative things are collected in the article. I use the term "article" also for texts. Those are written on social media.  

We might analyze who is the person or actor, who is benefits the case that somebody doesn't take vaccines? The person who benefits from the action is often behind that thing.  The thing is that some vaccines are denying also the use of biological weapons. But that thing might not the reason why somebody is resisting the vaccines. 

If the person is vaccinated there is also impossible to die because of some illnesses. That means the vaccines are protecting people, but they also deny lies like being home in flu when a person has a hangover. 

One of the things that can use as the mark for disinformation is that the article or disinformation is driven by using humor or there are some other things like mentions of mental illness of the writer. Things like schizophrenia have not connected with the things like Game theory. 

But for some reason, the creator of the Game theory John Nash is always mentioned as being schizophrenic. 

When I read books about Game Theory there is one remarkable detail. In those texts is mentioned that Nash has that syndrome. So what the schizophrenia has to do with a thing called the Game Theory? Are those people estimating the Game Theory? Or are they estimating the mental condition of John Nash? That is a very interesting detail about writings of the Game Theory. 

Or the article is written in the spirit that something like a denial of vaccines is somehow "cool". Those texts are also appealed to the vanity of people. "Why I must take vaccines"? 

Other people are taking them, but why should I"? I have the right to say "no", and who cares about the hospital places that are reserved for me"? The corona-passes show that the person is taken the vaccines. But the deliverer of the disinformation appeals to selfishness and vanity. 

If we believe those people we should think like this: other people should sit inside. And all things must be closed because somebody doesn't want to take vaccines. 

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Facebook and dominance of the media.

The position of Facebook is dominating and that causes concern. Facebook is a well-known and commonly used service. And that thing causes that the information is starting to pile up in that service. That information contains data that we might want to hide. Facebook is a network-based service that can use for many purposes from marketing to intelligence. 

Facebook was down and the thing cost about half a million dollars per hour to that service. That shutdown has shown how dominating that service has been growing. Facebook is a powerful tool. It can use to track the networks of people. 

Artificial intelligence can show the network map of the people who are using that service. The data that travels between certain members of the network can show how often those people are contacting each other. There is a lot of criticism against Facebook but the fact is that everybody is using that thing. 

The attitudes toward Facebook are conflicting. People are criticizing that service because it dangers privacy. And otherways almost everybody is using it. The governmental and private corporations and actors are found that service. But the critics for it is caused because the users are making its content. So they are offering their work for Facebook. But otherwise, the paper magazines and especially the car and other hobby magazines are used the same method for making their content. 

The reporter came to take a couple of photographs of the hobby car made short writing and then return home. The builder of the vehicle didn't get anything. And the magazine was sold to people at a very good price. That is the thing that ever caused criticism. But the social media services are caused discussions of copyrights. There have been discussions of copyright, freedom of speech, and other things like that. 

The question is about the line of social media and its moderation. Who is making the limits for cheating and other things? Maybe we would not face those problems without social media. What is tolerated? And what is not tolerated? The thing is that in social media are many things that are causing discussions and what are a little bit uncomfortable for some people. But there is one thing that we must realize and that is would the world even know about things that Putin has made in his country without social media? 

When people are saying they must not read negative things. Because they want to keep fun they are allowed to do that thing. When people are writing to social media they are allowed to make those things by using the platform that they want to use. 

Maybe many of those writings are boring, but who cares. People have the right to celebrate. But otherwise thinking also boring people has right to write something. Nobody listens to boring people and maybe that is the reason why they must write something. If those things are boring people must not read them. 

Who forces us to spend time reading things like this? If you have read this text to this point that is your choice. You could spend your time by making something other things. So if you hate this text, I must say that choice was yours. I didn't force you to read. There are lots of people who are not social, they are not spending their time in a disco all day. 

They look boring so they can disturb somebody. That's why they are at home. But if you are in the disco and some other person would write something boring would you spend all the time while reading the texts what boring people are writing? Why you are not at dancing? Or maybe that thing is not my business. 

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The role of ancient gods in the life of people

The role of ancient gods in the life of people

Do you now that the origin of the tales of "Illuminati" might be in ancient Greece, where the gods and their priests created very complicated networks across the city borders. And those networks sold information about the strengths and tactics of the armies to other states. Also, it is possible that those networks created triggers in the minds of the royal children, who should lead armies, and if those triggers launched by showing the mark, that could make the person unable to work. So this is why those societies are behind many tales, and one of them might be the tale of the "Illuminati".

There is a possibility that the Illuminati was only the name of one secret group or society of Bavaria, which was disbanded at least when its creator Adam Weishaupt died. But as we know tales are living, and maybe the tellers of the first versions of the tales of "powerful Illuminati" connected to the real but very small secret club to tales of the ancient gods.

And of course, those tales were grown during centuries. When Christianity was taken in the official religion in Rome, the ancient gods were turned to myths, and that means they were connected to more or less real secret societies, which might be very short term organizations.

When we are comparing things like ancient gods with the modern perception of god, there are many differences with those things. One of them was that the ancient gods like some Pallas Athena or Zeus were families or groups, which made something happen. In this case, the "family" means the network of people, who had some skills or position in the society, that they can influence in some cases, what will happen in the cities. The statues of those gods and goddesses were the point, where people left the will of taking contact with that specific organization, which ruled some part of social life or necessary things in society.

When we are thinking about Zeus, that over god was the common version, what was used to make contact with some parts of that organization. And why Pallas Athena, the Goddess of skills of war and wisdom was woman, was that the meeting the woman in those cases when the question was about war, the thing was that meeting woman can happen naturally out of people's eyes. But the thing was that Zeus must be kept clean, and that's why solving the problem was delegated to the lower god or organizations. So were those gods some families, and where some families use the name "Zeus" is a mystery.

But the fact is that those ancient gods or mafia families were given the origin of the tales of "Illuminati", and maybe Weishaupt took the idea of his organization from those tales. And here I must say, that officially the organization, what Adam Weishaupt created was disband at the begin of the 19th century. But the legend lives, that this group continued its work as an undercover society.

The ancient gods were organizations, what members or priests were protect their secrets very carefully, and that means those societies had power across Greece. So what made Oracle so powerful was that those persons, who served the Oracle knew the number of enemy soldiers, and if the price was suitable also other people had the right to see those papers.

Even if those city-states were at war, the gods were the same in that area and the priests with their servants made the network across the borders of the states. And that thing might be an effective tool in the right hands. As I have written before this those networks were secret from the eyes of ordinary people. So the origin of the "tales of Illuminati" might be from that era.

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Networks and security of data storage

Networks and security of data storage

Networks are providing many benefits to handle data comparing to traditional methods like USB-sticks. The biggest benefit is that when data is stored in the cloud, that means it is independent of the platform, where it is handled. So in this kind of cases, we must remember, how many USB-sticks we have stolen, and how many times the computer, where the data is stored has damaged?

This is the reason, why the cloud is a really good place for processing data, and that is the thing why companies are investing in those technologies. The computers and other devices, which are used to handle data can be equipped with biometric keys, which gives access to precise data, what is stored in hard disks. When we are making those biometric identifiers we should make them easy to use, like the image, what is taken from the finger. Or rather the things, what are used automatically.

That means that the user of the system might not even know about the biometric identifier. If we think the keys, what are used to log in the computers, they might be things like mobile telephones. If we will make mobile telephone safe key, we might make a system, what has two modes. If the person just opens the mobile telephone, that thing would act like a normal cell phone. But when a person wants to use it as an electronic key, that might need to boot it, and during the startup, the person might need to give the biometric identifier. That would activate the role as the key.

And in a perfect system, the renew of this action should be done often enough, that the system would be safe. That means the cell phone can use by everybody, but only one person might use it as key to the system. And of course, if a person is under threat the snapping secret SOS over the biometric identifier might tell that person is in trouble. If the wrong person uses a telephone, the information of that would send to security personnel, and they might locate the phone very easily.

The thing is that biometric systems are easy to use, and they can collect many types of data. One thing is that the precise information about the areas, what biometric system uses for recognize person might not be mentioned. So the thing is that the mobile telephones, which are used to send the log-in request might have hidden biometric key, what detects if the wrong person tries to use the system. In some cases, the web-camera, what is used for face recognition might use the image of eyes for recognizing the user, and that thing might not be told to the users.

Or the mobile telephone, what is used to recognize the users, is connected to face or retina recognizer, what might be the normal web camera, and that system detects are the person, who attempts to log in the system, and user of the mobile telephone the same. In this case, there are two keys, which are comparing together. So in those cases, the maker of data security protocols has noticed, that some person can lose the mobile telephones.

In the real-life, there is another thing, what the maker of the log-in protocol must realize, is that there is a possibility, that somebody might be forced to let people access to the system. This means that in those cases there must be something to give for those people. The thing is that the system might have a backup protocol for the cases, where somebody is asked log-in for computers, which are used by some other people, and that thing might cause grey hair for the spies.

The thing is that if a person uses only passwords or tries to log in otherwise wring way, that system can lead the person to wring network segment. That network segment might contain information, what is equipped with a tracking cookie. And the mission of this system is to uncover the hackers, who might attempt to steal data.

The networks, virus scanners, and hacking

The networks, virus scanners, and hacking

If we are thinking about the role of the virus scanners in a computer network, the system might detect things, what people might not want to tell. When we are thinking about the role of networks in computing, we have always forgotten that almost every computer in the western ICT-infrastructure is connected to the network.

Every network is an intranet, and in cases, like North-Korea the entire country is the giant intranet, where is shared very well filtered information. The methodology is similar to the companies, what are using IP-address based system, where is shared only information, what is allowed by the leaders of the company. But the scale of those macro-sized intranets is much larger than in some company's network.

And also official authorization makes those systems more powerful tools for surveillance more effective than any private network can be. In that infrastructure, people must force to use the software, what is terminating their privacy, and let government agents check their computers whenever they want. Also, those people should force to get surveillance operators to use their web-cameras by remote control to find out, who is with them. If somebody denies those things, that person might send to prison camps for "retraining".

That means that we must be careful, what we are doing with our computers. The virus scanners can protect the network in the many layers, and of course, server-based systems might protect the system even single computers would not have virus scanners.

But this thing requires one thing, every bit what comes to the network and comes from the network must travel through that server. And the thing is that also the communication between computers, which are connected to the network must be routed that also their data would travel through the server. This arrangement is called the star topology.

One of the things, what virus scanners are doing is that they are protecting the network from outer attackers, and the other mission, what virus scanners have is to protect other users from the attacks, what comes from some network. The thing is that if some hacker would use some network as the attack platform, that means the system can cause damages because trust to that operator is gone, but also authorities are making research and investigations.

That means that the offices might be sealed by officials, and the use of the internet is limited from the personnel who are working in that company. Sometimes is introduced a scenario, where saboteurs would connect their devices to the network, what is operated by their competitor for making troubles for the reputation of that company, what they use as an attack platform.

Those attacks might be tracked very soon, and the police would arrive at the headquarters of some company. Even if those attacks would fail, the platform company would get very big losses, because police must search those offices and interview personnel. When we are thinking the antivirus software in this kind of situation, the mission of it might be identified all computers, which are connected to the network.

Also, the system might have a mission to detect computers, which have different settings than other users computers. But when we are returning to think about our favorite tool, the artificial intelligence, that system can detect computers, what seems like hacking tools. The thing is that the creators of artificial intelligence can input the parameters, what can detect the computers, what are used for hacking tools.

The profile of those machines would get from the computers, what the officials are confiscated. Then the settings and programs of those machines would be programmed to artificial intelligence, and it can detect similar settings and programs from the network. But if we could get more data about the actions of hackers, we could use that data to make a model of the hacker, and that model can be used to detect other hackers from the network.

So in this model, the actions of detected hackers would observe, and that data is used to make model and profile, what can compare with other users. In the best case, the data can be collected from entire studies time, if the hacker is a student. And then the officials would arrest that person after graduation, which makes possible to create a full-scale complete profile of that kind of people.

I know this seems utopistic, but during that surveillance time the hacker could be used to share hoax information to the back organization, and also the files, what that person deliver might be equipped with tracking cookie. Tracking code allows detecting people, who are paying for some other reasons to share that information, what is got by using the illegal methods.

Writing about the next generation hacking tools

Writing about the next generation hacking tools

The short story of the Galileo-remote-control system


This software is created by an Israeli company, what product is the thing called "Data security". The name of the system is similar to the European version of the GPS-system, and sometimes I have thought that is it possible that this tracking tool has got the name, what is similar to European Galileo-system actually because people are wanted to deceive for installing this software accidentally, when they want to install the European location software in their computers.

When we are thinking about the companies, whose mission is actually monitoring the employers of some other companies, we must realize the thing, that those companies can also share that data to the third party. This is a very bad thing, and when we are thinking about the cases when the source codes of tracking software have been stolen, that thing might be very dangerous. The hackers can customize that software, and use it in their own purposes. And this is a really bad thing for the security.

Modern hacking has been changed from the operations of hobbyists to fully professional hackers, who are selling data to the persons, who are willing to pay about things like that. They can also customize the software what is used as the tracking tool, and then resell that software. If the network owner would use the legal tool, what reports the user that the connection is monitored, the hacker can fix that code that way that there would be no information about the surveillance. And this stealth version of this software can slip to the targeted system.

The next generation tool for hacking is artificial intelligence. 

Artificial intelligence would be the next generation tool for hackers. It can operate independently, and in the worst case, the hackers just write the name of the targeted company to the screen. And then the computer hacks the target automatically. The benefit of artificial intelligence is that thing ever get tired. This means that the machine can operate non-stop to searching the network, looking for data, and test the passwords. It can change the IP-address of the attacking machine, which makes it really hard to track.

And the thing is is that this operator would ever sleep, and it can operate even years non-stop in the computer, what is in some empty room, and that computer is far away from the human operators. It cannot be connected to any humans, and if it is found, the hackers remain free, because they cannot be tracked, if the system is made correctly. The computer just delivers the captured data to the internet, and the system can carry it by using several servers, which might locate in the different countries, which makes tracking of the hackers very difficult.

When we are thinking about artificial intelligence, it would be the ultimate tool for hackers. Artificial intelligence can collect every single byte of data, what is written about the company, and then it can look at the worlds, what is looking like the passwords. Actually, it can use the same programs, what people use, but artificial intelligence does it more effective way. The thing is that artificial intelligence can make many things faster than human makes it an effective tool for hacking tool. That means that artificial intelligence can try the entire dictionary book of words to some password square.

Artificial intelligence is an effective tool for hackers.

It can change the IP-address of the computer automatically if the targeted system tries to block the address, where the suspicious traffic of bytes comes from. But it can also compile the response time of the targeted system, and that means that artificial intelligence can try letter by letter the password, and the thing would be that the response time would be a little bit longer if the letter is part of the password.

And it will test the password by putting a letter to the line of the password, and it will compile the errors of the response time. The thing is that when the letter is part of the right password, the system must drive the database a little bit longer because the system would compile the password by mark to mark, and this response time can be metering.

The form of the password can make it easy to notice if the wrong file would be opened on the Internet. In the worst case, the passwords are stored in the database, what is hacked. And then the hackers can dump all that data to their own system. Or they can make own superuser in the database, and that thing can cause the situation, that those hackers can operate years in the targeted systems. Those words are combinations of the letters and numbers, what are stored in the databases, and in some cases, those passphrases can be seen at the Internet by googling the name of the domain and trying word passwords after this. That will sometimes uncover the passwords very effectively if they are in the database, where can be accessed from the internet.

The thing what gives warning that some nation would be behind the hacking is that there must be installed some software in every computer, what is used in some country, and what is owned by some companies. This seems a very effective way to monitor people, but there is one thing, what the actors, what makes this kind of operations have forgotten. People can use their own computers also for the business, and that thing will be very good to know when those kind of things are made.