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The Core Thesis
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in aging digital infrastructure threaten democracy, requiring urgent redesign of computer systems using mathematical principles from the Church-Turing Thesis.
Key Challenges
Democratic Risks
Adversarial Landscape
Key Insights and Core Message: The urgent need to redesign digital infrastructure to protect democracy by removing the dictatorial, centralized, opaque compilations and superuser operating system to end cyber threats.
- Technological Background: - Kenneth Hamer-Hodges has 50+ years of experience in computer science and telecommunications - Binary computers were designed for short-term batch processing, unlike Church-Turing Machines designed for non-stop, fail-safe, decades-long cyberspace reliability
- Cybersecurity Challenges: - Outdated binary computers designed for batch processing in the Mechanical Age of the last century leaves out the infrastructure of Lambda Calculus needed for software security in the endless Information Age. The nation is unacceptably vulnerable - Lack of digital security allows malicious actors, the CRINK-Axis (e.g., state actors from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) to destroy digital democracy.
- Outdated Binary Computers: Binary machine code for RISC machines lacks essential software protection built for the Information Age. Fail-Safe machine code to enforce the functional modularity of the Lambda-Calculus in the Church-Turing Thesis.
- Digital Democracy Threats: - Unavoidable transition to digital dictatorships - Centralized operating systems add ever more authoritarian control mechanisms - In time everything from voting to law-making and enforcement will be automated and manipulated in shared binary cyberspace.
- Solution: - "Industrial Strength Computer Science" - Hardware with built-in computational privacy, individual digital security, and Lambda Calculus functionality in machine code - use capability-limited addressing to protect digital "atomic" functions - Use government-funded innovation competition - Develop "lambda calculus vaccines" (LCV) at warp speed as for COVID-19 like free release and distribution as a fail-safe scientific redesign of computers.
- Call to Action: - Involve the general public to demand technological reform - Recognize cyber threats are as critical to civilization as every historic war. They are all fights for freedom by and for the people - Demand transparency using the scientific approach to computing called CLOOMC.
Kenneth Hamer-Hodges' background in computer science since the 1960s, focused on reliable global communications. That's important. He contrasts early batch-processing computers with the need for long-term reliability in utilities. The main issues he raises are outdated tech leaving to vulnerabilities, cybersecurity threats that threaten democracy. Enemy state actors, the CRINK-Axis are intent on ending democracy.
He emphasizes the need for "Industrial Strength Computer Science" or software with a measured, modular MTBF achieved using the built-in security as Lambda Calculus Machine Code (CLOOMC). Solutions include capability-limited addressing, government-funded competitions, and a "Lambda Calculus Vaccine" computer (LCV). The call to action involves a public outcry for reform and education through his trilogy on this subject.
The Core Thesis
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in aging digital infrastructure threaten democracy, requiring urgent redesign of computer systems using mathematical principles from the Church-Turing Thesis.
Key Challenges
Current systems inherit 1960s batch-processing design meant for 8-hour shifts, not modern 24/7 operations, no inherent protections against malware/ransomware (e.g., 2024 CrowdStrike global outage).
Centralized OS designs enable potential digital dictatorships, AI/deepfakes erode trust in information (analogous to COVID-19 pandemic spread).
State actors (China, Russia, NK, Iran) exploit systemic weaknesses
Economic cost of cyberattacks now rivals physical warfareProposed Solution:
Industrial-Strength Computer Science a fail-safe Hardware Revolution as Capability-Limited, Object-Oriented, Machine-Code (CLOOMC)
Industrial-Strength Computer Science a fail-safe Hardware Revolution as Capability-Limited, Object-Oriented, Machine-Code (CLOOMC)
Build capability-limited addressing into machine code
Create digital shells for "digital genes" mimicking biological cellular protections
System Architecture:
Replace centralized OS with atomic, self-protecting components of a digital democracy
Implement trusted mathematical transparency at the foundation levels
Government Action:
Warp-speed funding competition for secure systems (analogous to COVID vaccine development)
Distribute "lambda vaccine" fail-safe computers as public service for the new Internet infrastructure
Call to Action:
Public must demand reform - a wartime mobilization
Engineers to prioritize security over "playing God" with tech
Immediate transition from profit-driven to science-driven systems
Create digital shells for "digital genes" mimicking biological cellular protections
System Architecture:
Replace centralized OS with atomic, self-protecting components of a digital democracy
Implement trusted mathematical transparency at the foundation levels
Government Action:
Warp-speed funding competition for secure systems (analogous to COVID vaccine development)
Distribute "lambda vaccine" fail-safe computers as public service for the new Internet infrastructure
Call to Action:
Public must demand reform - a wartime mobilization
Engineers to prioritize security over "playing God" with tech
Immediate transition from profit-driven to science-driven systems
"Unless we build protection into hardware like nature builds hard eggshells around embryos, centralized digital dictatorships will control everything from voting to lawmaking." - K J Hamer-Hodges
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