The world has fast become a global village thanks to the Internet, satellites, undersea cables and so on.
Anytime connectivity of all things and all people across the globe is becoming reality and that is great great! The possibilities and opportunities are endless only limited by our ability to imagine! However!
Idiom: The two sides of a coin. Or the two faced Roman Janus who presides over peace and war!
I strongly believe this intense battle or arms race between good and evil can be won to the great benefit of humanity! Human ingenuity will do it as time goes on! Criminals, bad actors, or government agencies will mostly loose! It is only a matter of time!
Potentially, in a a few years or in 1-2 decades we could possibly make global elections possible. Global direct democracy is on the horizon! We should thank the gamers! 😊
"From the emergence of the video game “Pong” in 1972 to the release of “Hogwart’s Legacy” in 2023, the video gaming industry has come a long way. With a revenue of over US$227 billion in 2022, gaming is no longer the niche industry it was once thought to be. The number of gamers in the world is expected to reach a figure of 3.32 billion by 2024. This recent surge in growth has, in a large part, been a result a of the COVID-19 pandemic when the market expanded by about 26 percent between 2019 and 2021.
However, this popular form of recreation has also imperilled cybersecurity. There has been a surge in cyberattacks on the gaming sector, with an increase of 167 percent in web application attacks in 2021 alone. In 2022, the gaming industry became the biggest target of Distributed Denial of Service attacks, accounting for about 37 percent of all such attacks. Account takeovers, cheating mods, credit card theft, and fraud are all issues faced by gamers on a regular basis. The most alarming development, however, was the leaking of secret documents in April 2023 containing confidential US Intelligence on a videogame chat server, in what has come to be described as the worst Pentagon leak in years. This just goes to show how ignorance of this threat could have unforeseen and potentially catastrophic consequences, even from a national security perspective. ..."
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