Life of Crime

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/45/futurist.html

by Christine Canabou
photographs by David Burnett
from Fast Company issue 45, page 60

Futurist

Tom Talleur, 52, a managing director in forensic and litigation
services at KPMG. He founded NASA's network and advanced technology
crimes division, which investigates national and international
cyberattacks against NASA's communication systems.

Scenario

"Technology is feverishly re-creating our physical reality. As we
begin to coprocess the virtual world and the physical world,
integrating technology into every support device of our lives, we're
learning to tolerate a greater threshold of cyberattacks. Tomorrow, we
will put up with e-crimes the way we tolerate allergies today. The
current biological warfare will be trumped by cyberlogical warfare.
E-crimes will exploit us in very personal ways as cyberchips are
embedded into our bodies. We will learn to accept the side effects of
such invasions, much like the way we deal with the effects of drugs
and vaccinations."

So What?

"Our society will be running around like a dog chasing its tail as our
physical reality becomes crafted at the subatomic level by
self-replicating nanobots. E-crimes will become adaptive, predatory,
and morphological, driven by entities that exist solely to destroy
entire communication networks. Cyber-illnesses will become so
pervasive that entire service brownouts will delay global
communication and B2B commerce, which in turn will create tremendous
opportunities for further abuses in the marketplace."

Futurology Decoder Key

"Cybercrime won't stifle the expansion of e-commerce -- it will
accompany it. As technology becomes more sophisticated, entire markets
will be created for cyberwarfare entities and then for counter
entities. And the focus will be on defending the individual. Clinical
psychologists of cyberspace will help people cope with the new reality
of integrated virtual and physical worlds, where we'll experience
unprecedented exploitations. Widespread identity thefts will follow.
We'll see cases of permanent identity loss by 2015."

Contact Tom Talleur by email ( ttalleur () kpmg com )



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