网络攻击是人类社会面临的最紧迫威胁之一。2017年夏天，NotPetya攻击造成约100亿美元的损失，仅仅是网络犯罪每年造成的6000亿美元损失中的一小部分。网络攻击的成本虽然可控，但其影响却正在扩大。我们可能很快就会用生命来衡量网络攻击的代价。在高度互联的世界中，网络攻击是不可避免的，但我们并非没有防御手段。本期节目，布鲁斯·施奈尔将讨论网络攻击的危险，以及我们如何学会在网络攻击中生存。

🦠 网络攻击的成本正在迅速上升，预计每年造成的损失高达6000亿美元，几乎占全球GDP的1%。

🛡️ 网络攻击不再只是金钱损失，而是可能造成生命损失。我们现在生活在一个高度互联的世界，任何人都可能成为网络攻击的目标。

💡 为了应对网络攻击，我们需要采取积极的防御措施。这包括提高网络安全意识，加强网络安全基础设施，以及制定应对网络攻击的应急预案。

💻 我们需要认识到，网络攻击是不可避免的，但我们并非没有防御手段。我们可以通过学习如何识别和应对网络攻击来提高我们的生存能力。

🌐 我们需要加强国际合作，共同应对网络攻击的威胁。只有通过共同努力，我们才能构建一个更加安全、稳定的网络环境。

In Episode 60 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Bruce Schneier, about cyberattacks, cyberwar, and survival in a hyperconnected world.

Cyberattacks constitute one of the most urgent threats facing collective humanity according to Bruce Schneier. History has proven him right. In the summer of 2017, a weapon of cyberwar was dropped onto a world without borders, where the heavy artillery and nuclear warheads that defined the battlelines of the 20th century have been rendered useless. The attack, known as NotPetya, is estimated to have cost its victims ten billion dollars in damages. This is a fraction of the six-hundred billion dollars that the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates to be the annual cost of cybercrime, constituting nearly 1% of global GDP.

Cyberattacks cost the world a fortune, but these costs are remain manageable. Still, they they pass largely unnoticed. The public, lacking context, remains blind to the gathering threat, unable to appreciate the gravity of a cyber 9/11. Until now, cybercrime and cyberterrorism on the Internet has been measured in terms of dollars and cents. Soon, we will be measuring the cost of these cyberattacks in terms of flesh and blood.

The 20th century has seen its share of industrial innovation and forward progress, but for the most part, these changes have been discrete. Things have gotten bigger, faster, and cheaper. Still, no one ever expected a train to become a toaster or a pacemaker to magically transform itself into an aisle of books. The composition of an object – its component parts – did not exist independently of its use case. A key used to open a locker couldn’t be repurposed to start a car, nor could a refrigerator open the door to a power plant or to the halls of congress.  

In today’s world, where everything is a computer, everything is vulnerable. When those things are connected to the Internet, everyone is exposed. Cyberattacks are inevitable, but that doesn’t mean that we are defenseless.

This week, on Hidden Forces, Bruce Schneier describes the dangers posed by cyberattacks and how we can learn to survive in spite of them.

Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas

Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou

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