Republishing! Establish a System to Thoroughly Crack Down on and Punish Countries and Individuals That Commit Wrongdoing in the Space Called the Internet
He expressed alarm, saying, “They have the capability to damage infrastructure [in Japan, the United States, and elsewhere].”
January 31, 2018
What Must Be Done Is to Establish a System to Thoroughly Crack Down on and Punish Countries and Individuals That Commit Wrongdoing in the Space Called the Internet
January 31, 2018
Rapeseed greens must be in season now.
Recently, I have frequently been buying and boiling rapeseed greens, and, relying on my own arbitrary sense of timing, I had been leaving them in boiling water for roughly three minutes.
But although they were tolerable freshly boiled, the portion I refrigerated somehow failed to whet my appetite…it did not taste good.
It occurred to me to search the Internet for how to boil rapeseed greens.
Recipes appeared in an instant.
To my surprise, one said that thirty seconds was enough.
They had not tasted good at all because I had been overcooking them.
I immediately tried boiling them according to the recipe, and the difference was like night and day.
The reason I write about this is to convey the truth of what I have repeatedly stated—that the Internet is the greatest library in human history—and to point out that what prosecutors and police throughout the world should now devote their greatest efforts to is establishing a system to thoroughly crack down on and punish countries and individuals that commit wrongdoing in this space called the Internet.
We have already entered an extraordinary situation in which both the police and prosecutors must urgently update themselves.
It is an indisputable fact that social media is involved in many of the crimes, including murders, that have recently dominated the news.
When I first saw a man named Hajime Takano on “Asa Made Nama TV,” I wondered why this man was there.
Twice, at the bar of the ANA Hotel in Kitashinchi, which I used to frequent, I found myself seated next to him and Ryoko Ozawa as they talked.
The conversations I overheard were always about bid-rigging by major general contractors and the like.
Only the other day, when I searched for this Hajime Takano, did I learn for the first time that he was the son of the Takano who had once dominated Sohyo, the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan.
I see—so that was why he appeared on “Asa Made Nama TV” and wrote the Democratic Party’s platform.
The Democratic Party’s ultimate patron is Sohyo.
Having the boss’s son write the platform was a calculation intended to win even greater favor with Sohyo.
Yet how could such a political party and people like Takano have continued attacking the major general contractors?
Japan’s major general contractors, of which the nation can be proud before the world, have consistently carried out the construction work demanded of them amid the social circumstances of each period…that is, work meeting Japan’s highest technological standards.
Because I have continued writing in this way, I have recently realized that bid-rigging was a method devised by the major general contractors—concentrations of the finest talent in architecture, engineering, civil engineering, bridge construction, excavation, and other fields—to achieve both the full exercise of their technical capabilities and profits, given that they are also private, profit-making companies.
The entire world knows the excellence of Japan’s major general contractors in every respect.
It is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that the major general contractors are the groups and organizations that have most effectively continued to convey to the world the excellence of Japan and the Japanese people.
Around the time I first appeared in this way, I stated that Japan’s outstanding salaried workers were modern-day samurai.
They, too, are modern-day samurai, just like the trading-company men who are my lifelong close friends.
On the other hand, what about the people working at media organizations such as Asahi Shimbun and NHK?
Are the people in the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s Special Investigation Department, who undoubtedly use those organizations’ commentary as a substitute for their own minds, truly modern-day samurai working for Japan and its people?
Far from being samurai, have they actually been parasites within the lion’s body, undermining Japan and its people from within?
Or would it not be an exaggeration to say that they are in the palm of China’s or the Korean Peninsula’s hand?
The following is an article from yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun.
Targeting Israel’s Strong Defenses
Hacker Group May Be Studying Attacks on Infrastructure
It has emerged that a North Korean hacker group has been launching cyberattacks against the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC).
Although no actual damage has been confirmed, a senior company official described them as “extremely sophisticated attacks.”
North Korea is believed to be studying how to breach robust defenses by attacking Israel, which possesses some of the world’s most advanced cyberdefense technology.
There is growing concern that it could improve its offensive capabilities and inflict devastating damage on critical infrastructure in Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.
(Kazumasa Bando, Tel Aviv)
Israel has been subjected to fierce cyberattacks believed to originate from Iran, Islamic extremists, and others, and has developed cutting-edge defensive methods.
In particular, IEC, the country’s largest electric power company, which operates seventeen power-generation facilities domestically, experiences more than six thousand attacks a day, and its defensive technology is considered the best in the world.
According to an expert involved in IEC’s cyberdefense, the company analyzes the sources and other aspects of the attacks it experiences daily.
Attacks aimed at destroying IEC’s systems or causing them to malfunction previously originated mostly within the Middle East, but attacks perpetrated by North Korea have increased since around last year.
Regarding North Korean attacks, IEC is on alert, stating that North Korea “has a strong ability to create malware [malicious programs] that causes power-generation and transmission systems to malfunction.”
North Korea’s objectives are unclear, but an expert assesses that “it is highly likely that it regards actual attacks against Israel, with its advanced defensive technology, as exercises to improve its offensive capabilities.”
Ofir Hason, chief executive officer of “CyberGym,” an IEC research facility that teaches electric power companies and government officials from Israel and abroad how to respond to cyberattacks through simulated exercises, pointed to North Korea’s extremely sophisticated offensive capabilities and expressed alarm, saying, “They have the capability to damage infrastructure [in Japan, the United States, and elsewhere].”
Regarding North Korean attacks on infrastructure, an investigation published last October reported that a hacker group believed to be from that country had attacked American electric power companies.
However, because no damage was confirmed, the view had spread that North Korea lacked the capability to carry out successful attacks on infrastructure.
Hason emphasizes, “There is absolutely no room for optimism.”