Showing posts with label PSN. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Are we safe?

On May 02, 2011, the world was cheering in victory as Osama Bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, holy warrior, mastermind of the 9/11 bombing, and ultimate hater of the United States, succumbs to a lethal defeat as the US Army invades the fortified Pakistan compound, the very place where Bin Laden resided for 5 years. They say that they had to raid the compound in order to kill him. Others say that he was killed unarmed.

The United States insisted that they threw his body into the sea. Photographic evidences of his death are not revealed to the public, insisting that the whole operation is confidential and is of danger if released in public. With this, the public is in doubt about the authenticity of Bin Laden's death, despite the massive media coverage of his death.

Prior to this event, Sony had a massive plague hitting the users of its Playstation Network with multiple hacking and security breaches, affecting millions of users and placing thousands of credit card accounts at risk. Sony presently has made multiple efforts to please its customers, even to the extent of giving free games to affected customers, yet these customers are not pleased at how a security breach occurred not once, but twice.

Both of these events may have a varying level of significance, but they have something in common: the fact that the world is never in a state of peace and stability. That there is always uncertainty in the things that we do. That there will, and will be always, a loophole that will never be solved. No matter how hard we try to make the world safe, there are these glitches that can potentially mess things up. Even the most sophisticated technology can fail us eventually.

Sometimes, all of these precautionary measures and sophisticated technologies towards protecting ourselves are not enough. We may run all the time but we can never hide. Might as well be cautious of our decisions, after all.