CHAPTER 4: BUSINESS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
4.1 History
Attacks on computer facilities at institutes, businesses and key infrastructure points are hardly a new phenomenon. We’ll start by signalling something that we’ve so far missed in this book. Computer facilities and systems themselves are sometimes the central target of a perpetrator. This dynamic is likely to escalate as intelligence chatter suggests that a new wave of extremism and terrorism dubbed variously as ‘anti-technology’, ‘Luddite’ or ‘eco-fascist’ may be about to wash across our planet. In part, stimulated by growing concerns in some quarters at the role of AI-powered systems replacing workers (thus, fear of unemployment and poverty). Furthermore, disquiet spawning ...
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