Virtual Revolution Notes
- Paypal founder: Peter Thiel, 1990's- 'New world currency'
- Paypal allows ordinary people to transfer money
- Facebook- 350 million users, equivalent to 3rd greatest population if it was a country
Negatives
- Islamist use it to give out messages
- Through propaganda
- 'web acts as a virtual portable homeland
- web allows them to live in their own world
- cyber balkanization- reinforce their extremist
- web can be devisive
Estonia 2007
- Most wired country in Europe
- Cyber attack to bring down Estonia institutions
- Cyber warriors bombard networks with requests (Denial of Service)
- Banks, businesses and governments webs were shut down
- cyber war- no one knows who's attacking
- Person responsible claims it was 'Cyber Self-defense'
- Ross Anderson- 'Its a danger as we become more connected'
1/4 of planet connected
- Stephen Fry: Social Networking could help bring down a regime
- Web: 'Incredible opportunity & Incredible Responsibility'
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