Project Chaos

“The pursuit of knowledge may become harmful unless it is combined with wisdom.” When Bertrand Russell wrote Knowledge and Wisdom , the year was still 1954. Technology was in the most nascent of its stage, invisible if safely assumed. But for an author to imprint the world with words as such, words that an eighteen-year-old teen might ponder over while writing an essay on cybersecurity, can be withheld beyond coincidence. With every step that we take towards opening ourselves to the benefits of the world of technology, we unwarily give access to unseen perils that lurk in its shadows. The world continues its pursuit of new innovations every day, while we prevail in our attempts to catch up, not stopping to realize the plethora of privacy violations we subject ourselves to. 2020 was the year attributed to the pandemic. 2020 was also the year vulnerable to the biggest recession of all times. 2020 also happened to be the year of surge in cyber-crimes. Wh...