When Will the World Face Cybercrime?

Every day, news spreads across official platforms and social media networks about breaches carried out by criminal gangs, certain state intelligence and espionage agencies, and some adventurous individuals. These breaches end up stealing millions and billions of dollars and exposing security, economic, and ethical secrets, thereby plunging the world into a vortex of confusion and dangerous crises. People of this era ask: Where are the relevant governments, all kinds of concerned international institutions, and civil society rights organizations in the affected, compromised societies? Where are they all, along with hundreds of other stakeholders, collaborating to study this issue and propose solutions to confront this national and international security phenomenon, as well as the global electronic corporations that may be benefiting from it, and thus turning a blind eye to what is happening as long as they benefit directly or indirectly?

Shouldn’t it be the responsibility of all local and international entities, united and cooperative, to form groups of scientists, technicians, and specialists to study cybercrime in depth and comprehensively, and to present specific proposals to decision-makers regarding the legal, strategic, industrial, and ethical aspects that the world must agree to adopt in order to confront all dimensions of this issue and control it collectively? Moreover, the issue and the proposals should not stop at confronting the breaches we mentioned, but should seriously and coherently address all the dangers facing communication channels, as well as the lifestyle, value, and ethical orientations that modern technology has brought and will continue to bring.

When the matter reaches the point where immense dangers could affect children worldwide, educational institutions globally, all components of the global environment, and all civilizations without exception, as well as all the human, spiritual, and ethical values humanity has built over the centuries, then these dangers will not be temporary or incidental, but existential. It is certain that many institutions, especially international ones, will need to reform their laws, objectives, and methods of operation to carry out their missions without obstacles imposed by some selfish major powers that have historically dominated international institutions unjustly.

What happened to the United Nations, placing it under the control of the five veto-wielding powers, serves as a good lesson for this world to be built on the foundations of equality and fair democratic solidarity, rather than the narcissistic rivalries among major powers. The world must realize that to achieve all this, it will need to make a radical and sincere final transition from the colonial mindset, which old colonial powers still cling to in all its forms, even practicing its ugliest manifestations, and also from the neoliberal capitalist Enlightenment mindset, which employed all kinds of lies to multiply the wealth of the world’s rich and drive the world’s poor to the lowest depths of endless poverty, hunger, and loss.

Had it not been for these two despicable mindsets, we would not have seen daily the scenes of the senseless Russian-Ukrainian war, which those mindsets do not want to end, nor would we have witnessed daily the pitiful bloody crimes committed by the Zionist entity and its allies against the Palestinian people, while the world does nothing more than chatter, issue statements, and protest.