A threat definition results in a detailed description of the physical threat by a malevolent adversary to the system.
Its inventors and entrepreneurs are driving the information revolution, and they must figure out how to protect vital systems against malevolent intrusions.
In both sectors, there was little thought given to the possibility that we might one day hand the keys to these systems to malevolent actors with contempt for democratic norms.
The message was addressed "ILOVEYOU," but the e-mail delivered a malevolent virus that crippled computer systems around the world, including systems at the U.S. Congress, the British Parliament and the Pentagon.
While none of these systems are necessarily malevolent or ill-intentioned, the reality is that they are silencing huge swathes of society and, in the process, selling keys to the doors of the future that many people simply can't afford.
Zaher (Zack) Zahrey was a police detective with a spotless record when certain malevolent forces of the criminal justice system in New York began to close in on him.
Spared western problems like an open system, stupid regulators, and malevolent bankers, China has dodged a reckoning.An alternative explanation is that China may have been spared the incompetence of America's Treasury Department and Securities and Exchange Commission but still landed in the same soup.
I asked her who could be blamed for the fire, which seemed to me to be more a result of a corrupt and inefficient regulatory system than any particular malevolent actor.
And so, for now, we can take a measure of comfort in not knowing absolutely for sure that more Netflix subscribers have watched "The Ridiculous 6" than watched a docu-series about the gross inefficiencies and malevolent practices of the American criminal-justice system.
