Let’s start with war, but with hopelessly old-fashioned. During the Second World War the couple Otto and Elise Hampel distributed around 200 self-written postcards and flyers in Berlin stairwells, where they called for resistance against fascism.
In the Berlinale – film “Every Man dies alone”, from the novel by Fallada, one sees Brendan Gleeson tirelessly upstairs and run -ab, and he carries a deep hat and a high coat , and to make it two years to remain anonymous, although police and the unit control room and the decent fellow keep all after daubers out.
and now let us imagine, ergriffe in Germany again an evil regime to power, and again wanted a Lonely raise his voice. He would probably try that on social networks, but once accepted, he would find postcards the more surprising that effective idea: how far he had come so
Pictures of 121,000 terrorist suspects
Of course, he would remain less than two months in freedom, probably less than two weeks, perhaps no two days. Closed-circuit systems would catch him, catch the public surveillance cameras. Who knows, maybe he would have been one of 121,000 terrorist suspects, which alone has identified the Luftbildanalystin Lisa, the short two years for the NSA auswertete drones photos reported in Sonia Kennecks “National Bird” thereof.
And that was five years ago, today there are likely to be millions who have come under the scrutiny of surveillance drones and about the man or woman as Lisa has a screen like the decision. terror suspect / suspicion, can be killed by rocket / must not be killed
Except Lisa there in “National Bird” Daniel and Heather, and all bite to be coated with accusations almost tongue in fear, a word to say too much and relentlessly pursued by the whistleblower Obama administration. We know about the drone war pretty much – as opposed to the subject that has Alex Gibneys “Zero Days” made: the Stuxnet virus.
Who
came the Stuxnet virus? That was, some will recall, a computer worm, who saw a few years ago for excitement, and the Wikipedia entry is unchanged: “the programmer group and principals are unknown”. The change, the highly decorated documentarian Alex Gibney had made, and if it is so brilliantly succeeded in showing that he <"teKino" / span class => would win the Golden Bear not only be the first documentary. He could have intervened in the course of history.
What a great word. Welch presumptuous word for a two-hour movie. But if it on Wednesday to see the world at the Berlinale million viewers after its premiere, it will encourage debate that currently any interested parties – ranging from the US to China, from Russia to Israel – try to prevent a cartel of silence; a cartel that threatens all of this new way of Kriegens involved with draconian punishments, they should talk about what they do.
Gibney does what a good journalist must do: He tried to persuade stakeholders to speak. At the beginning there is a meaningful assembly of officials of every kind, immediately cut when the name Stuxnet is only mentioned. Now do Gibney what a Commissioner has to do. He investigated the murder weapon (the code of the virus), he explores the motives of the act (geopolitical interests), and he questioned suspects (members of the secret)
This is not another conspiracy theory
And he just does not end up in another conspiracy theory. It proves beyond reasonable doubt that the virus was built by American and Israeli services and brought into the world to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb. Nobody admits, but Gibneys evidence would exist in any court. It is a brilliant piece of research.
However, it is not an accusation, because driving it more far-reaching questions about. Questions about how they could make 1914: What will change in the way of fighting when we can now attack aircraft? The one had to put 1945: What does the atomic bomb for warfare? And the one in 2010 would have required if you had understood what Stuxnet really was. The Hiroshima of a new kind of war, the Cyber War
“Zero Days” has no outstanding stylistic qualities, what would otherwise require a Berlinale winner; but what can you show except speaking heads, documentary footage and round the optical Nirwana floating source code? That is: An icon of “Zero Days” will impress us, a balloon, which is filled by a pump with air.
If the emergency button to stop responding
One pump was programmed to switch off automatically, when the balloon is full. But, asks Gibney, what happens when a small Stux has changed the programming? If the nuclear power plant technician at a heating its reactor in vain presses the red Notabschalteknopf because a new Stux has its button inoperative?
Gibney brings his balloon to burst, this is the point: the point of this kind of waging war is to jump from the virtual into the real space to scrap uranium centrifuges to bring aircraft to crash to sabotage the electricity supply. It works, even today, send off without a single Rambo or suicide bombers.
The Americans have demolished Iranian centrifuges, paralyzed the Iranians in retaliation American banks, and a few weeks after its reintroduction of runaway Stux returned to his country of birth back and caused massive damage. Both sides suffer, and this is true even for the Schreibtischtäter (or should we call them desktop perpetrators) of “National Bird” that identify the drones images “objectives”: Lisa suffers from posttraumatic stress syndrome, and Heather are drawn to Afghanistan, for forgiveness of to solicit the innocent family that was decimated by a drone missile.
the Schreibtischtäter suffer
There , they all agree, no real protection against cyberattacks. There could be a how to have and controls against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, all of which now regulated by international treaties. These contracts did not exist, would not Commoner gone decades this street. Against Cyber wars no one goes on the road, because no one recognizes their dangerousness, and because those states that are such wars able prevent a public debate by explaining it all for “secret”.
And, to repeat in it, consists of history important merit of “Zero Days”. Gibneys film blows the smoke screens of the “war on terror” and similar Geheimhaltungsvorwände aside, and behind it a very clear picture of our world emerges. Clear thinking. Welch boon in our thicket of electronic waste opinion. This alone would have earned a Golden Bear.
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