Cyberspace is getting militarized. Minds, not just machines are hacked through psychological warfare. Are India's freedom and sovereignty at stake?

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CYBERSECURITY
AND SOVEREIGNTY
India's Next Decade
SPEAKER
SAUMIL SHAH
CEO Net SquareFriday 7 FEB, 6:30 PM

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About Me
• CEO Net Square
• 21 years in Infosec.
• Hacker, Speaker, Trainer.
• M.S. Computer Science
Purdue University.
• LinkedIn: saumilshah
• Twitter: @therealsaumil

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WE SHALL EXPLORE
EVOLUTION
ASYMMETRY
CYBERSPACE
SOVEREIGNTY
SOCIETY

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Let Us Recognise India…

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…in its proper context!

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Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Gordon Moore 1929-
REVOLUTIONARIES

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EVOLUTION &
MOORE'S LAW
"The number of
components per
Integrated Circuit
shall double every
couple of years"
- Gordon Moore, 1965

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POWER ASYMMETRY

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Virginia Tech System X: Nov 2003
1100 PowerMac G5's
12 TFLOPS
#3 Supercomputer in
the world, Nov 2003
> 10 TFLOPS, < $10M
Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan

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NVIDIA AGX Xavier: Nov 2019

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2007 - Evolutionary Milestone
The Microprocessor is the new Transistor
=

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2007

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2007 - Society

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2007 - Autonomy

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▶▶ 2017

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Evolution of the Internet
WWW
E-COMMERCE AND WEB 2.0
CLOUDSocial Networks
BIG DATA

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4,74,000 Tweets
70,000 Instagram posts
2,40,000 Google searches
4,500,000 Youtube videos viewed
100,000,000 Messages sent

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44,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000 bytes
Mega
Giga
Tera
Peta
Exa
Zetta
Information Asymmetry

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If you're not paying for the product
then YOU are the product

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The Machine Is LearningThe Machine Is Learning

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Next Mutation: A.I.
HTTP
E-COMMERCE AND WEB 2.0
CLOUDSocial Networks
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
BIG DATA

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NOW APPROACHING: CYBERSPACE

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CYBERSPACE
NATURE'S AND PHYSICS' LAWS
DON'T APPLY HERE.
NEITHER DO YOUR GOVERNMENTS'

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2007
DEFACEMENTS
MACRO VIRUSES &
WORMS
BANKING AND
FINANCIAL ATTACKS
CARDING
PHISHING
PASSWORD
COMPROMISE
IDENTITY THEFT
WIKILEAKS
STUXNET

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2010
SNOWDEN/5EYES/
WIKILEAKS
TOTAL LOSS OF
PRIVACY
RANSOMWARE
MILITARY-DIGITAL
COMPLEX
BANGLADESH SWIFT
HACK
MASS DATA
BREACHES
RANSOMWARE

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2020 - A Brave New World

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!
"
#
SOVEREIGNTY
OF INDIA
SPACE
ATOMIC
सं#कृ&त

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Computerization, Discretion, Freedom
Sergey Bratus, Anna Shubina
December 31, 2015
Surveillance of social networking, pervasive user tracking in hopes of reaping
profits promised by “big data”, and ubiquitous failure to secure stockpiled
personal data went from being the concern of the few to making mainstream
media. We’ve learned that what hurts privacy is also likely to hurt freedom. But,
despite all these revelations, the worst and the most pervasive danger of
computerizing our everyday lives has so far avoided public attention: that
computers modify our behaviors related to discretion, professional autonomy, and,
ultimately, moral choice.
Computerization changes every area of human activity it touches, by bringing
new rules and new metrics. With enough of these at work, humans must act with an
eye to not just what they do (or should do) in the actual real-world situations, but also
to how it will look in the computer representation of it—and the latter are never
complete. And when they disagree, one must either spend the extra time and effort
“fighting the system”, bend the rules—or give up.

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CELLS = PIXELS
• HUMAN FACULTIES FOR THREAT DETECTION
FAIL IN CYBERSPACE.
• WHAT IS COMMON SENSE IN REALITY IS
IGNORANCE IN VIRTUALITY.

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BEHAVIOUR
• DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT BEHAVIOUR IN
REAL WORLD VS. CYBERSPACE

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Where Are You Living?
#BREXIT
#US Elections
#CAA
…typing

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CYBERSPACE
DISTORTS REALITY

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ASK THE EXPERT

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37. NETSQUARE Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando (The Bullshit Asymmetry)
The Bull! Asymmetry

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THIS PERSON DOES NOT EXIST.COM
Your Social Network

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CARBON = SILICON
C4 Si4

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ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
AND OTHER
STORIES

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Evolution of
COLONISATION 2.0

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!
"
#
DIVIDE AND
CONQUER
"

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CYBERSECURITY IN 2020
• DEEPFAKES, DECEPTION CAMPAIGNS
AND DIGITAL DESTABILISATION
• TRADITIONAL MEDIA'S DAYS ARE OVER
• UNMANNED ARMED FORCES
• UNMANNED CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT

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THE DECADE BEYOND?
HTTP
E-COMMERCE AND WEB 2.0
CLOUDSocial Networks
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
BIG DATA

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Capabilities Of Today's Nations
Data
Dominance
Hardware
Dominance
Society &
PsyOps
Financial
Attacks
Cyberweapons
& Surveillance
Hacking
Journalists

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The Military-Digital Complex

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हमारे पास माँ है!
Defence
by
Diversity
…for now

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India may not have the
Information Asymmetry advantage
but it does have an
INFORMATION OVERLOAD advantage

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!
"
#
SOVEREIGNTY
IS IN THE HANDS
OF ITS SOCIETY
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Cybersafety Briefing

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➦ Forwarded
TRUE
Corona Beer causes
Corona Virus
I am Dr. Francis Boyle
FALSE

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CHECK THE FACTS
…YOURSELF

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Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to MALICE
that which can be
adequately
explained
by NEGLECT

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When in doubt, enroll to…

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!!!
infosecawareness.in

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THANK YOU AND
JAI HIND
@theRealSaumil
Li/saumilshah!