The New Type of Warfare

While researching for class I found the new type of warfare. This is warfare through technology. Most people think, “oh the war of robots.” However, this is much more dangerous and scary than that. This is a program that someone can carry on their USB and create tons of damage. For instance the first attack, Stuxnet attacked a penetrated an Iranian nuclear power plant making them remove 1000-2000 fuses that were malfunctioning. People have no proof that Stuxnet was the reason and aren’t able to find that proof. However, when they look at the code there is no other explanation for the malfunction. Part of Stuxnet that was alarming was that the malfunctions don’t show up right away. The Iranians weren’t able to figure out what was going on for a long time. The person that planted the worm in the system had to know the plant better than the Iranians. The code was highly sophisticated and hard to analyze. No one knows who made the worm but a lot of people think the worm should never have been planted. It now gives a lot of countries new ways to destroy each other. They can attack power plants, government computers and plans, or directly attack the citizens of each country. 60 Minute video on Stuxnet
There was another worm made after Stuxnet to gather information from every computer possible from, “a limited number of organizations for their specific assets.” (Researchers warn of new Stuxnet worm) The worm was gathering their information about the manufacturing of industrial control systems. This worm’s name was Duqu. This worm had parts of it that were identical to Stuxnet. Meaning that more worms are being made based off it and therefore creating a new type of warfare. It becomes easier for countries to get information about each other and destroy each other subtly from the inside. The affects can be huge and create more problems than we have ever had before. The issue is there isn’t much anyone can do about it. They are high sophisticated worms that show no trace and don’t allow the person being affected that they are being attacked. The worms prevent operators to see that the equipment was malfunctioning and gathers information without anyone knowing. Whoever made the original Stuxnet shouldn’t have actually used it. It has grown into something more and more dangerous than anything we have found before. However, people don’t believe the worm was meant to be publicized. It was just made to do damage and die. Once it was made public it became dangerous. If it weren’t made public by Symantec we wouldn’t have as much of an issue. We now need to somehow find a way to protect ourselves from any attack that is like this because it could potentially ruin a country more and faster than anything has before.
To learn more about Duqu read this article: BBC Article

I Am Always Responsible for My Actions

I am always responsible for my actions. No one else makes me do something. Just because I am pressured by the people around me doesn't mean they MADE me do it. I never give into peer pressure however some people do. I have a friend that gave into peer pressure and got in trouble and blamed it on peer pressure. They got the same response as I would give them. No one held a gun to your head and said do it. Acceptance is not an excuse to not take responsibility for your actions. You did the action on your our just take responsibility for your mistakes. Mistakes also help us grow as people so if you come to reality and take responsibility for your mistakes you can grow more as a person. Some other people use the excuse that they were under the influence and didn't know what they were doing. However, they need to take the responsibility for being under the influence and therefore take responsibility for their actions while under the influence. People are always responsible for their actions. Only they can make do those actions and only they can be held responsible for doing those actions. Actions aren't always bad though. Some people are modest when they are rewarded for something good that they did. However, they shouldn’t be too modest. They did the good dead/action and should take responsibility for them and be rewarded.

Neo-Nazi Group is a Civil Rights Group?

Fox News did a story on a Neo-Nazi group being in Sandford, Florida where Tryvon Martin was killed by a "neighborhood watchman", George Zimmerman. The main issue in this case became gun control and the Florida law, Stand You Ground. This law states that anyone that feels like their life is threatened can use deathly force on the person they feel threatened by. However, The Neo-Nazi Group, National Socialist Movement, one of the biggest Neo-Nazi groups, found the need to come and "patrol the area". They call themselves and Fox News calls them a "civil rights group".

After this story was published the editor put out a not saying, "The report originally published Saturday inadvertently referred to the National Socialist Movement as a civil rights group. We intended to refer to them as a “self-proclaimed” civil rights group." However, they still see themselves as a civil rights group. What kind of civil rights groups' ideology is, "Neo-Nazi; NSM calls for a “greater America” that would deny citizenship to Jews, non-whites, and homosexuals."(The National Socialist Movement)? This group is affiliated with multiple clan groups and are anything but a peaceful civil rights group. They believe that they are fighting for the white race's rights because no one else does so. However, there are plenty of white Jews and homosexuals. They are the exact vision on the Third Reich and should not be called a civil rights group. They do nothing but go to places and have rallies to promote the Fascist's views and to try and create a "better America". They aren't fighting for people's rights. Some people may say they are violent but they don't use violence unless they are acted upon violently first.I don't agree with what they have to say or what they do but in that sense I have to stick up for them. However, I don't believe that a group who strongly believes in the Third Reich like in Germany during World War Two and what they stand for can not be considered a civil rights group. Especially in a place with so many people effected by it and with so many people that escaped from and live through it. I don't think that a group that's goal is to purify an area by ridding it of certain groups of people can be called a civil rights group.