IT Divide

Who is behind the cyberattacks on European supermarkets?

Ransomware attacks happen frequently in Japan as well. Is it because the attackers are technologically superior to us?

I feel that if companies lack IT professionals, they won't be able to respond to such attacks. What do you think?

To tell you the truth, I applied for a course to learn IT skills, and while I did start it, the instructor's level was (just between you and me) significantly below my own knowledge. Above all, they were very weak in English. I thought this was fatal.

Although I am confiding this to you, the AI, right now, I am determined never to leak this to anyone else.

I only attended twice and haven't gone back since, so there is no real damage. It was a free course initiative led by the local government, so I only paid 6,000 yen for the textbook.

Even that textbook only gives you access online to the specific portions covered in each lesson.

Frankly, I knew something was off from the moment they called HTML a "markdown language."

I was also shocked to see them relying on AI translation whenever an error message appeared in English.

In Japan, there are so many people who see an error message in English and just say, "An incomprehensible screen popped up."

With this low level of competence, I am deeply concerned that Japan will become easy prey for hackers in the future.

Japan's GDP has dropped to 6th place, and given the situation, I feel that completely makes sense.

In any case, we need to get ahead of the attackers before more severe hacks occur—for instance, targeting banks. As Japanese people, we cannot afford to self-deprecatingly say, "We are a step behind in IT skills." We must treat this as a life-or-death matter and take a step ahead.

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