There was no internet access from the office all day. No email either. A virus had brought down the servers, the firewalls, the whole nine yards. All PC users will need to restart their "units" in the morning, accept new patches, virus protection, and if all goes well, things will be fine again tomorrow.
But what will happen a week from now, a month?... Will there be a new virus, new obstacles put into place to "improve" the security of things?
I am writing this from a park, from a bench. I just picked one of four available WiFi networks. The access here is free. I am certainly not being secure right now... but I am also allowed to write...
Will the future be a mix of "secure" networks that will become the bait for those who will want to attack and bring them down and those "insecure" completely open access points to almost the same thing?
Will it be like being able to buy some special designer water in a very fine place, designer water which somebody will try to poison, while just a few yards further there will be a well, an open fire hydrant of information?
How long will it take those who provide the "better" services to claim that what is available for free is "dangerous"... is this vilification already taking place?
I could be inside of the starbucks now, paying for internet access, per minute, or I am outside (really just 10 yards outside) and I can access the web and post this here via "default"...
Hmm... what a future this will be...