Cyber mapping

cyber mapping is a trend among marketers that have been in use for quite some time. it purpose is to seek, survey, and target group of consumers and map their needs, consuming patterns, and spending habits. this way companies know through a cybernetic mean where to physically locate stores and warehouses in order to ensure a steady supply of means for consumers. even though it might sound just as a fast way to gather information, it can also be used to gather vital information from common individuals. this seemingly harmful trend has been adopted by several governmental and private agencies to figure about patterns in local communities, cities, and in some cases, entire countries. but why would consumer information (just focusing on what people consume and their spending patterns) be so important? it so happens that by knowing these simple patterns one can use this information in hopes of achieving two possible outcomes. first scenario is in a positive way. after natural or man caused disaster this information is extremely relevant in order to channel the logistic efforts to meet the population needs, in order to keep a supply stability strong enough to endure and regain a normal condition. the second scenario is with a negative approach. where by knowing what people need and consume frequently, there could be specific efforts to cut these supply routs and cause a local or global instability (depending on the magnitude of the attack).

Taking this into account, how protected are we and up to what level should we hand out our personal information. Because just by answering a simple online survey we might be jeopardizing more than just running out of simple every day things, but rather handing out our own vulnerabilities .

The thin line between right or wrong

cyber terrorism is a big concern at the international system, not only because it threatens directly a political view, ideology or belief, but also because now treats and attacks can be made by a remote location without ever being in contact with anyone or specific place. This is the most worrisome aspect of cyber terrorism, as we can se in this video, some one claiming to be ISIS hacked into the CENTCOM tweeter page and also stole some information from the main web page. Never the less, this attack could have been make by any computer savvy and not necessarily a member of ISIS. 

On the other hand, now a days people have more and more power over the internet, we've been witness of how the civil society takes matters into their own hands via internet, protesting on tweeter, Facebook or any other social media, having a great impact worldwide. These social movements are more and more common and countries around the world are being forced to acknowledge them and consider them as a relevant actor inside the international system.

The perfect example for this empowering of the civil society would be the group ANONYOMUS. Many people think of this group as a terrorist organization, due to its harsh and direct way to adress the world, but the truth is that most of the time, this organization is mainly neutral, and its only purpose its to free and to stop the excessive control of information going around the internet.

In this next video we can see the response of ANONYMOUS to the hacking of CENTCOM by ISIS members, here we can clearly see  the amount of power that this group has, and once again we can observe how the internet is the perfect platform for those who seek power but do not have the sufficient means to obtain it by the traditional way

Its a reality that the internet is a great tool for our hectic life, but its also a huge unknown universe that contains a grat number of threats, not only for individuals, but more so to states and international organizations.

Deep Web: A journey through the Internet.

Internet is an infinite world where you can find from the most common information until the most exotic video, but there is a place where few people can enter, people that are prepared/or not, to see the most bizarre things in the world, this place it is full of information about: governments, personal information, drugs, real hired killers, secret information even child pornography and that place is called the Deep Web.

You may ask yourself what is this place? What kind of information is there?

According to Wikipedia we can define Deep Web as a:

The Deep Web, also called the Deep Net, Invisible Web, or Hidden Web, is the portion of content on the World Wide Web that is not indexed by standard search engines. Computer scientist Mike Bergman is credited with coining the term in 2000. (Wikipedia)

What does it mean? Well it means that the websites in this part of the internet can´t be found it by searching in Google, Yahoo or another site.

It means that you have to be really smart to enter in those pages.

Let´s watch a video that explains way better

On the other hand the NASA generates a big amount of information invisible to the conventional search engine and trying to collect this information and put it into a new search engine called memex. This means that the sites at the Deep Web cannot be hidden anymore.

Internet is a good tool to find information, where the information is waiting to be discovered legal or not, you have to be careful about the information, videos, photos that you find at the Deep Web, no one knows what´s out there.