The problem with computer science is that cyberspace is a digital war zone. World war III is already raging in cyberspace and our enemies have the high ground and nothing is done to prevent enemies from winning. There are three very serious problems to solve
- Ransomware
- Digital dictatorship ,
- Single point of failure
The binary computers began after World War II as a centralized system for the mainframe days when these systems filled a locked room. There was no internet or off the shelf software. Everything as 'do it yourself' and shift work allowed failures to be rerun later. These machines never included guard rails to keep programs on track.
No one checked for errors they were left for programmers or users to find when print outs were available. The lack of checks allowed hackers to take advantage and abuse the centralized design centered on a privileged operating system as a single point of failure.
The Internet made things worse and allows remote hackers to create malware that has grown into the debilitating problems of unchecked ransomware and a big freeze as happened on July the 18th this year. The Network Administrator is a single point of failure that will one day stop the world.
Trying to detect hacking and stop these attacks only leads to more authoritarian, Orwellian dictatorship attempting to stop ransomware, and patches cannot fill the scientific cracks, gaps and voids in binary cyberspace. A simple mistake can lead to a network-wide blackouts.
None of this can be fixed by patching because the problem is systemic. The architecture of the binary computer only understands zeros and ones and a privileged operating system in charge of everything.
It was designed in a hurry after world war II following the ENIAC designed in 1946 by John von Neumann for standalone mainframes in the '60s and '70s, before microprocessors and the Internet changed everything.
However, the science of computer science was developed before the war by Alonzo Church and Alan Turing, based on the lambda calculus, the simple formula of functional computation used throughout nature.
When children learn math at school they learn the elementary steps of lambda calculus as a = b + c, but unlike schoolchildren the binary computer does not understand what symbolic names like a, b, and c. All they can do is know the difference between zero and one, and the super used operating system that does everything else.
Symbolic computers are defined by a namespace where a, b, and c as well as the = and the function + for add and - for subtract and all known that can be translated by correspondingly named programs called function abstractions.
If is called lambda calculus is only found in a Church-Turing machines like the PP250 a novel design that detects malware and is distributed across a network. The two sides act as a check and balance on all actions Together they guarantee all activities in the computer are checked and made fail-safe. This removes all malware and centralization that in addition lead to dictatorship and single points of failure.
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