It is doubtful that the Covid-19 plague was intentionally initiated as a weapon of mass destruction aimed at the Western powers. The novel SARS-Corona-19 virus is a positive sense single strand messenger RNA virus and as such it is just too unpredictable and unstable virus that is prone to mutation to be used as an effective and intentional biological weapon. A standard hypothesis is that a glory seeking virologist went into a dawn of time sort of cave seeking viruses which might become the carriers of the next great pandemic and mishandled some mammal vectors. That virologist was probably working with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Now here is where the accidental unleashing of the Covid-19 plague was fortuitous for a number of states that are very skilled in spreading destructive propaganda and cyber warfare. There are many targets of opportunity in the United states in particular our essential military personnel and politicians. Remember a few nefarious states would love to be able to spread chaos and havoc before our 2020 general elections.
Our country is in a vulnerable state of affairs. A concerted cyber terrorist attack on our delicate and unpredictable financial institutions and banking sector could further devastate the United States. Also security is probably not as efficient in our infrastructure as it was before our current health debacle. Hopefully, the key components of our civil engineering work force and their works (airports, hydroelectric dams, train and road construction, etc.) are being adequately monitored and hardened against computer initiated attacks.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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