Truly cyberwar, but against our own people.

• There are lies, damned lies, and statistics (i.e. black magic)
• People worship technology to our collective downfall
• Any technology requires a feedback mechanism. A $10 thermostat will make a $2000 heater useful. Banks are good at managing money because they measure failure/success readily (how much money did they make or lose!) . How good is AI at this?
• My current focus is cybersecurity which is all about brand and liability. Do you really know if a technology is working? It doesn’t matter, actually it’s better if you don’t measure success / failure because that’s too complicated and makes you accountable and requires you do ongoing work to ensure success. Measure what $ deal you got with a brand name company and then pray you don’t end up like another Equifax and if you do, you can probably blame it on somebody else, or better yet you’re long gone into another job by the time it happens. They call this Security Theater. (Incident response and other measurements are improving this, but there is a long way to go still, because those tools have so much noise, people often ignore them after a while).Not much different from government behavior.
• The majority of the population is too busy to look at the details and probably not educated enough about it. Machiavelli wins again (in the short term — i.e. a human lifetime or a job tenure).

Thx.