The Smithsonian Channel has put together a very insightful show entitled System Crash chronicling the dangers of our growing digital world.
Unbelievable…and unstable. Unlimited…and unreliable. See how our growing dependence on modern technology, now running everything from transportation to energy to finance to communications, has made life a whole lot easier…and infinitely, sometimes tragically, more complicated.
Take a disturbing trip to the dark side of the Internet, where cyber crooks pose a constant threat to our finances, privacy, even our national security. Discover how hackers can attack major corporations and bring entire countries to a standstill, and what, if anything, we can do to stop them.
It’s intend audience is the every day casual Internet user, not the security or network engineer. I thought it did a very good job of articulating the dangers that are growing and the peril that many Internet users are completely unaware of today.
Here’s a brief excerpt from the show;
Cheers!
Hi Michael,
Do you have any knowledge of restrictions from the Smithsonian Channel towards the Belgium area?
The video-link in your article just states “THE VIDEO YOU ARE TRYING TO WATCH CANNOT BE VIEWED FROM YOUR CURRENT COUNTRY OR LOCATION.”.
Following the text link makes Firefox state “Firefox has determined that the server redirects the request for this address in a ‘never ending way’.”
Guess you won’t be able to do much about it? And seems I won’t be able to contact the Smithsonian Channel?
Anyway, it’s always fun to read your posts. Keep it up.
Cheers
Bram
Hi Bram,
I’m sorry to hear that you were unable to view the video. Perhaps I wasn’t very clear in the post but the video was only a 3 minute excerpt from the show. I did make some inquires with the Smithsonian Channel folks but I haven’t heard back yet. I would suspect that they might have distribution agreements in place that don’t allow them to show any videos outside of the US.
Thanks for the kind words and for taking the time to comment!
Cheers!