Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Feedly:Security News - Software vulnerabilities, data leaks, malware, viruses. Stoked by Bond and other fiction, our fear of surveillance is worse than the real thing
from Security News - Software vulnerabilities, data leaks, malware, viruses
The latest Bond film, Spectre, presents 007 with the very modern problem of cyber-security. Yet Bond cares more about being right, and about revenge – against both the man who wronged him and the government's efforts to put the "00" spy programme out of business by replacing it with better information – the sort of broad data collection and sharing that gets a bad rap. Bond is a fictional character, but his reaction follows the public's inability to understand how this sort of information sharing is necessary.