After Nukes, the Digital Revolution is Humanity’s Most Stupid Mistake
Billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. https://apnews.com/article/large-login-leak-cybernews-google-apple-meta-2a758a40c398b0a68fb2371a522f70ed
The Internet and digital systems are insecure and cannot be made secure. To operate in the digital world becomes increasingly risky by the day and harder to use. The inherent insecurity of all digital systems has led to the requirement for multi-factor authentication. If you forgot to charge your cell phone or your service is down, you can’t reach your accounts because you can’t access the code texted to you necessary for you to access your account. We are already into triple authentication–password, texted code, emailed code. In addition to these authentications, there are occasions when you use also answer questions, such as your mother’s maiden name, the street you lived on, your best friend’s name. Sometimes the questions you have to answer are not even your questions. They are questions that the site when it decided to add another layer of authentication came up with on its own. You then have to have the ordeal of getting in touch with a human and explaining that these are not questions that you supplied and know the answers to.
There are already sites that you cannot reach unless Cloudflare verifies that you are human. The site has to “review the security of your connection before proceeding.” For some reason Cloudflare cannot identify Apple’s browser Safari. Consequently, Internet security prevents my access to some sites.
It is going to get worse. I have noticed that it is increasingly difficult to use the internet. It doesn’t work as well as it did. My guess is that the scramble for better security has produced incompatible security systems that block one another.
Text messages to my cell phone sometimes never arrive; other times they arrive 2 or 3 days after they are sent.
The idiot corporations were sold a bill of goods that the digital revolution would lower their costs by shifting the cost of customer relations to their customers. Certainly the cost to customers in time and stress has gone up exponentially with the digital revolution. What in analogue days could be settled in a three minute telephone call answered on the third ring can in the new digital age take days to resolve, if it can be resolved.
As for the idiot corporations, banks, and financial institutions, the executives are finding that the cost of digital security has more than eaten up all the savings from shifting the costs of customer assistance to the customer.
The latest headline: “Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say” should tell us something. But it won’t. People are too stupid. They love scrolling their cell phones.
The digital revolution is the ultimate tool for criminals. They can use it to steal your bank account, your retirement account, your identity. They can load your credit cards up with their debt. They can sell your home out from under you. They can put things on your computer and cell phone for which you can be arrested.
None of these things could happen in the analog world.
So why do we use the digital revolution? We have been coerced.
When I close down this website, I will end my digital existence. I will use homing pigeons or smoke signals, or dispatch a messenger.
Addendum: It is clear that in the soon-to-be-arrived-at-future, whoever controls the AI algorithm will control what is true and what we are allowed to say and read. It is already happening. Recently, a friend posted on his X account two quotes from my June 19 article, “Is Trump’s Constituency Netanyahu or MAGA-America?” and a link to the article, https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/06/19/is-trumps-constituency-netanyahu-or-maga-america/
Within less than 30 seconds his post was taken down and his X account cancelled. This is X, the Twitter that Elon Musk purchased in order to restore free speech to social media.