Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Welcome to Cyber reasons's malicious life. Archaeologists don't have it easy when trying to piece together a reliable picture of the past

from tiny fragments of pottery and the occasional inscription.

One would assume that future archaeologists would probably have an easier task when it comes to our present lives.

After all, we're leaving behind an enormous... task when it comes to our present lives.

After all, we're leaving behind an enormous trail of digital information,

detailing everything we do on a minute by minute basis,

including pictures, videos, texts, and more.

It seems that if anything, they'll probably have the opposite problem, trying to make sense

of this deluge of information.

The reality, however, is quite different.

While inscriptions written on stone and clay might survive for thousands of years, digital information is far more ephemeral.

See these, for example, may become unreadable in as little as 15 to 20 years.

And even if storage media manages to survive the ages, reading its

content often requires reconstructing a suitable hardware and software

environment, especially if the recovered information is a piece of software.

Some scholars believe that our present might be just as inscrutable to future historians

as our past is to us.

And when it comes to cyber security, future archaeologists who might wish to reconstruct our present

might face an even bigger challenge because on top of all the

difficulties I listed cyber security has one more problematic characteristic to

consider secrecy. Criminals naturally wish to avoid detection

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