ManvsAgency

We have created a speakers series at NGAGE called Brainfuel.  The remaining 2009 calendar is already booked with a who’s who list of leading scientists and social advocates (all on the front lines of the digital space). Today, we had an FBI Special Agent talking to our team about the frightening world of cyber crime.  The cliff notes are as follows:

• The Chinese have us by the balls.
• The US government is not going to provide much help.
• Identity theft is big business.  Intellectual property theft is a bigger business.

Although my expectations of his talk (it being our first in a series of brainfuel speakers) were moderately high, I was pleasantly surprised with the overwhelming feedback that I received from my team.  It certainly exposed the underbelly of the 2.0 world. No doubt the agent had a pocket full of frightening predictions and real life criminal case studies………it was however his off the cuff remarks and  ‘word to the wise’ that put a bit of sweat on the brow.

The presentation today left me feeling that our private/personal information is way too intertwined with a fragile infrastructure; credit card companies and the nations power grid to name just a few.

I make a living embracing the ever changing digital environment.

Today I learned that Change can also be violent.