We wish you a Merry Christmas and beware with the mobile equipment.

Kimmo Huosionmaa

In this Christmas, many people will get the new mobile telephone from the Santa Claus, and some of those telephones might be the fingerprint locking. In this case, the user of the computer can be recognized with the biometric systems, and this would be very dangerous if somebody will touch those telephones without permission. Those modern telephones will collect the information, what normal users don't even think, and one information is the movements of the telephone.


In some case, the telephone will send the alarm if some unauthorized person touches the telephone or the telephone will move. In the world of artificial intelligence, there is nothing, what is impossible, and in some cases, those fingerprints will send straight to the police, and then if the user is different than the owner, there will be reported about this kind of cases to the officials. I don't know, what happened if some criminal person, who was wanted by the police will touch those mobile telephones.


Some telephones have the artificial intelligence, what recognizes the worlds, and if the person claims that he or she is in the different places, that this person really is, will the official take the telephone in the surveillance. The fingerprint recognizers would be around the telephone, and they will give the information if the user is somebody else than the person, who owns the phone.


The use of the fingerprint recognizers will give extra safety for the user, and it is the way to the world, where the only thing, what the person needs is the mobile telephone. The use of biometrical systems to secure the identity of the user gives opportunities to make the mobile telephone the wallet, ID-card and many other things like the bank. The mobile telephones have one very nasty thing, what the people always forget. It is to use the telephone as the surveillance tool. The eavesdropped must only open the What's App and then close the screen.

And then the telephone will send all discussions to another telephone, and if the person has right programs, might this person use that telephone as an effective eavesdropping system. Another person will not notice that this application is open because the screen is locked. Also with the right software, the mobile telephone will transfer the effective "wardriving" platform, what collects the information from the networks, when some person will walk on the streets.


Modern mobile telephones have right components like GPS-system and WLAN for the wardriving, and that system will mark all the positions, what can be accessed to free and open network. But if some person has the remote control in the mobile telephone, can the hacker use that thing like the normal computer, and if the mobile telephone is equipped with the computers operating systems, another hacker can program the screen like that it will go black, and the telephone looks like that it is turned off.


In this scenario the hacker might use the telephone as the "man in the middle attack", and this person might collect very much important information of the target. And the mobile telephones can use as the infect other systems with viruses. Those computer viruses can be deadly if they will program the car to drive in the stone. In this hypothetical scenario, the control of the automobile will transfer to another place, and this system will work with the GPS-system and radios, what controls the safety of the car and denies the stealing of the vehicle.


The only part what must be put in the vehicle is actually the amplifier, what amplifies the signal of the electronic key. And by that way, the hackers can slip in the system. This tiny equipment can be masked as the surveillance transmitter, what can be put outside the vehicle. Or if the GPS system will transmit the data of the motor function to some surveillance officers, that channel can be used by putting the virus to vehicles.


The problem with computer viruses is that they might be very complicated, and it doesn't look anything more than some ordinary computer program. And in the worst scenario, the all operating system might be changed to the virus or trojan horse, what gives some operators capacity to take all the vehicle under their control.


The computer virus will change the car's fuel injection system, that it doesn't take commands from the hammer, and turns in the full throttle position. It can lock the people inside the vehicle,  like in some horror movies. And, of course, the brakes of the car will be brake and the control of the power steering might transfer to another place, and then some operator will drive the car to the wall. Some computer viruses can be infected the power platforms and if somebody puts them mistakenly to the systems, what controls the nuclear power plant, and the operator doesn't know that thing, could the result be an explosion. And this is the worst of the fears, what the man can get into the head.

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Threats of the artificial intelligence and autonomic robot systems

Image from movie "Terminator"

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The next race with developing weapon systems is about the artificial intelligence and integrating it with weapon systems. Somebody says that will save lives of the soldiers, but that will cause the great threat to all of the people of the world. If some dictator will able to get robot army in the command, might that person only need to give them orders and those robots will do anything that that person orders?


The reason why robots are the interesting  thing for the army commanders is that those machines can kill people without moral and ethical aspect. But when are talking about using of artificial intelligence in.military purpose, we must realize that the greatest weakness of those programs and machines is that they can't do anything that is not predicted.


They can’t generate their own ideas, and those programs are not able to use imagination for their actions. They can’t generate anything new, and that is the greatest weakness about those programs. They don’t have any visions or any imagination what to do if something goes wrong. The problem with the artificial intelligence is that it can pollute with the computer virus, what destroys it code, and those killer robots can be stopped by using EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) against it.


Also, nano-machine swarms can be stopped by simple way, those machines communication can be denied with electronic countermeasures, what denies those nano helicopters digital communication. Those countermeasure signals are able to give by any radio in the world. When we are talking about killer robots, they are of course great support equipment, but those machines still need operators that they can accomplish their missions.


What makes those killer robots so dangerous for humans is that some “security company” can operate with them, and making genocides around the world. Those robots might equip with self-destruction explosives, that nobody ever gets to know, what has been happening in some jungle. Also, undemocratic governments are interesting about those machines, because they can be operated by the president's office. That is why some countries have been put resources to train computer science and mathematics.


Robots are very trusty things, but if somebody hacks those systems and takes some attack droid under the command, the results might be catastrophic.In one scenario some operators equip Predator UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles) or killer-drones with back gates, and they will take some of those robots under their command.


Here we are talking about one Predator, what can be marked as a destroyed thing, and after that those hackers can use that drone for their own purposes. In this scenario, the team, that wants to steal that machine will put the trojan horse to that “Predators” central computer, and after that, the computer virus can open the system for hackers.  And results can be devastating if those drones will go to unauthorized use.

Why computer virus is so effective weapon?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

If we really think why computerized attack is so effective in  hands of terrorists or governments, is that equipment for that kind of attack are very cheap. Even with open source solutions is possible to program effective malware, and almost every person in the world can buy computer and download necessarily software from the net. Only thing what they next need is programmer who wants to make that kind of software. Malware could be masked as antivirus software, and if somebody downloads it by mistake, the attacker can take computer in control, and he can fish many vital information from target system.


 Or he can make that system so called zombie-platform, what can use as delivering platform for other malware programs, or if attacker takes many computers under his or her personal control, this person can begin denial of service attack with multiple computers, what can send millions of  echo request asks to one target systems. Those kind of denial of service  attack can cause serious damages to some net markets business. But when somebody wants to make viruses and he have right relationships, can he mask his work as antivirus-developing.


That kind of action makes possible to get virus-code from the net and make Trojan horses what looks like antivirus software. After making suitable software must those malware makers only give offer to their target company, and if they are good enough they use some well known antivirus company email, where they offer cheap packet of their product only for longtime partners. And the message is of course marked as "confidential", and link to loading page only give wrong page, what belongs to those criminals. And after that this company will download spy program what can monitor all data traffic what can be sent to those infected computers. This kind of attack is useful for industrial spying.


When we are talking about situation where attackers have agent inside target company, they can put virus code to the system from USB-stick. The code can bypass antivirus software if it is transferred as text documents, and after that just copy pasted to some programming tool. And if those attackers are sharp, they can do virus in system, without any warning. If target is firm what makes antivirus tools attacker can replace some components of program updates with malware code, and one example of that kind of action is that infected firewall can route data what have been set from that computer to third part who is industrial spy.


Who would be that "agent". He can be some real spy, who wants to help this persons homeland. But this person might be also some guy who criminals or spy's blackmails to co-operative. That's why persons who uses narcotics are good target for criminals, because they need money for their narcotics hobby. And some "bad guys" might offer that person free drugs or they can threat this person to tell this things about him to that target person's boss or other authorities. And what would you think what will happen, if narcotic user makes code for antivirus company. They would kick this person off right away immediately when they sees marks of using of drugs. Or reason for this co-operation with criminals might be revenge. This person might got so much bad things by his working partners that he or she can sell themselves to some "bad guys".