Jesus came and saved humans from destructive nature of hell, but he was a carpenter at the same time. The creative nature of God was evident in him. Sometimes I comment about secular works we do alongside our works of faith. Ministers must all work as the Apostles and disciples of Christ did. To depend solely on Church for living is not what Christ showed us and not what God had commanded. Genesis 2:9-15, 2 Thessalonians 3:3-16.
Today, I comment on my discovery that Adobe shared my personal information on the dark web, which they had no permission to do. I also had been suspicious of Adobe cloud technology as fascinating products but in a weak system. For instance, I sent someone an encrypted file for signature but before I could send the person the key to decrypt it and sign it. He called me to discuss the content of the document. I was confused at first and had to make sure that I did not previously send him the encryption key before asking him how he opened the document.
Once I did that, I inquired from the person how he accessed the document. He opened the encrypted document and read it on both his phone and computer without password, just like that. No encryption key was requested from the document recipient. I went back to my cloud storage to access the file, it required the encryption key that I created before opening it for me. The question then is, how come the recipient who had no computer training or hacking skill opened the document without the acrobat file demanding the encryption key before opening? Adobe told me he must have hacked into the document. Their response is the same old fashion denial of issue instead of acknowledging and solving the problem.
Lots of conversation is going on now about China and their stealing of our patents and intellectual properties but more need to be done about protecting it, especially regarding its security. We cannot open our front and back doors; creating escape tunnels and turn around and complain that thieves have stolen our properties or robbed us.
What happened to the good old days? When I was a kid, we used to play car games. Boys loved Mercedes Benz because of the ad saying then that the manufacturers guaranteed all Mercedes Benz by sealing their engines built to last forever and if it ever breaks down, overturns in any speed on the road or failed to protect you and your family from death during accident, you will come and get a new car and huge compensation. Then, BMW was separate from Mercedes Benz and has exact same promise. Volvo made the same promise too, like almost their competitors. Then the strength and culture of every company is to build the highest quality that anyone can ever build. Competition was never about profit or how cheap it is made. It was about what quality is the product and consumers patronize manufacturers based on their quality standards. It is all gone!
Global commerce has placed the means of production in places where the integrity and standard of production may not be urgent or important therefore depriving consumers great value for their money paid and creating many issues like privacy and security flaws. If God wanted humans to disregard our privacies, He would have shared the secrets in your heart with the public, hence He knows everything, and nothing is hidden from God. Men-of-God with such gift of secret knowledge would have been permitted by God to share such personal and private revelations with the public. Imagine a world where everyone secret is made public.
We should reconsider our cultural values and rethink our standard of production of goods and services at a competitive rate and markets.
Greed is not the same as profit and that is why God forbids greed. Luke 12:15 and Colossians 3:5 speak to this. Whoever engages in honest works or does good is rewarded with abundance harvest. 2 Corinthians 9:8. Why cheat is abundance has been promised. That is why such companies do not last. They disappear over time.
In conclusion, It is my hope and desire that our U.S. government, especially the United States JAB and 3 PAO’s through its Cybersecurity Asset Management tools ensures that systems, particularly foreign domiciled ones or persons comply with the risk management framework established in NIST standards and FedRAMP requirements and processes.
Google, Apple, and many company built its core products and principles by welcoming inputs from users and consumers and letting the technology evolve into the best around their consumers. Now, we are observing more and more erratic behaviors and outright punishment of anyone who provides constructive criticism or disagreement with companies at the core of these technological innovations.
If you disagree with any company, they ban you from their community or environment. Such behavior will kill inventions and innovations as the core value of western civilization. In college, we teach people and build our educational systems around robust constructive criticism without which research is useless. Our educational systems and institutions that hold modern civilization together will disintegrate because it will not even be tested for validity, authenticity, accuracy, integrity and strength. Without constructive criticism, human reasoning and rational will be too flawed to support any progressive society. If everyone is right, no one is right.
The public needs the protection of their governments as oversight and eagle eyes watching and testing what people are offering the public. Packaging the same products over and over again without any reasonable changes or development to maximize profit while lying to the public and deceiving unsuspecting people who are ignorant of how these systems work is stone cold greed. It proves the death of humanity because conscience is entirely absent in such conducts.
Ebelechukwu Elochukwu
