{"id":2347,"date":"2010-10-18T13:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2010-10-18T13:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T11:39:15","slug":"2347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cyber Threats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About fifteen years ago\u00a0I was researching a novel (which I never wrote) in which particle beam weapons (known then as star wars) featured as a threat. It was before Internet research and involved old fashioned leg work. I met some rather interesting people\u00a0who had\u00a0contacts with, but who were not themselves directly, spooks.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that the big new threat was not particle beam weapons, which nobody could make work and which were already out of date. It was cyber wars where pressing a few keys on a computer could disable an entire missile system, plunge New York into darkness, cut off \u00a0NORAD from the outside world; the list was endless and apocalyptic.<\/p>\n<p>Now it could all be presumably done from an iPhone or certainly an iPad. It is good now\u00a0to hear officially that this threat is a security and defence priority. No doubt countermeasures are in continuous development. This is one area where cuts or economy would be very unwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber Threats About fifteen years ago\u00a0I was researching a novel (which I never wrote) in which particle beam weapons (known then as star wars) featured as a threat. It was before Internet research and involved old fashioned leg work. I met some rather interesting people\u00a0who had\u00a0contacts with, but who were not themselves directly, spooks. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}