Data Thieves The New Generals

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Canada felt the power of data thieves on 8 July when Rogers, one of the service providers for email, internet and online banking was probably hacked.  

The company could not give any reason why we could not use ATM’s, or check bank balances. By the way, it’s only poor people that do that every other day. What are we looking for, miracles?

The groups of thieves responsible for 8 July shut down Rogers for data, the new road to riches. Whoever controls data, controls the world. I’m zero tech, but I can read writing on the wall. Data is - among other things - digital information we feed large computer network like Rogers, names, addresses, age, phone numbers, email, credit card numbers etc.

The group of thieves shut down most of Canada for a whole day because Rogers controls all aspects of life. Who are the thieves? The tech boys and girls know how it happened. They do. Technology is man made. The internet is man made. Therefore, some people masterminded the heist, which was felt internationally, because capitalism knows no borders.

No. The thieves are not Russia, China or Korea, the usual scapegoats. It is faceless guys that will sell our lives, because that is what data is. That is a lot of power, which makes war senseless, a waste of human lives.

The government cannot police or catch data thieves because they are faceless, so recycle the drones, land artillery, nuclear bombs because the enemy is within.

Data thieves are the new generals.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

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