Cell phone users are recording and posting events in real time-turning everyone into intelligence collectors, whether they know it or not. More than half the world is online, conducting 5 billion Google searches each day.
Now, data is democratizing, and American spy agencies are struggling to keep up. It’s a far cry from the plodding pace of Soviet five-year plans from a few decades ago. In this era, the United States is simultaneously powerful and vulnerable to a head-spinning number of dangers, all moving at the speed of networks. Oceans protected countries from one another, and distance mattered. The strong threatened the weak, not the other way around. Weak states and non-state actors can inflict massive disruption, destruction, and deception with the click of a mouse.įor most of history, power and geography provided security. Despots in developing nations are employing high tech repression tools. Terrorist groups are using online video games to recruit followers and Google Earth to plan their attacks. Three dozen countries have autonomous combat drones and at least nine have already used them. Russia is using Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms to wage information warfare. China is launching massive cyberattacks to steal American intellectual property and building space weapons to cut off US military satellite communications before the fighting ever starts. Now, a wide array of bad actors is leveraging technology to threaten across vast distances.
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