Your life can be destroyed with the click of a button. Mine was. Imagine being contacted by fraudulent individuals via the e-mail addresses of your family members and friends. Imagine communicating with these people, thinking that they are people you know well. Imagine sharing sensitive information with these people. If your own e-mail account was being used by a person or a computer to communicate with other people while using your identity how would you know unless one of your recipients was clever enough to figure out what was happening? This sort of trespass happens to unsuspecting digital communication-users far more often than you may imagine. It even happened to an acquaintance of mine who works for the State Department. After I alerted him to the fact that someone or something was using his e-mail account and his identity, he told me his e-mail address may have been hacked. However, a man named Edward Snowden has given us new and frightening information which sheds quite a different light on these types of scenarios.
Humanity stands poised on the edge of a precipice of monumental proportions. Communication is the key to organization. The reason we have the right to bear arms is so that our constitutional freedoms cannot be taken away from us. It is difficult to invade a country in which citizens can carry their own weapons. According to the Bible, even Jesus Christ instructed his disciples to carry swords. However, if you take away a society's ability to communicate then the people cannot organize. If the people cannot organize they are defenseless to invasion. If an extraterrestrial race were to stumble upon our planet they would more than likely laugh hysterically at the fact that just one deranged member of their species could subdue every one of ours by merely inserting an artificially intelligent computer virus into our computer networks. Artificial intelligence of this caliber already exists. Our government uses them to sift through all of our digitally transmitted communications. An artificial intelligence just recently passed the Turing test, which has long been held to be the test for consciousness in a computer. (See Ray Kurzweil for related information.)
To combat this threat to our species I propose an all out move to discredit any and all digitally transmitted modes of communication. I am not proposing eliminating these methods of communication because our system has now become thoroughly dependent on them. I am merely suggesting that we set a standard for verification of communications which relies on either analog systems or private couriers.
Please feel free to contact me with any suggestions or comments concerning this proposed move to analog.
Jason Specht