We all fear war. Famine, death, destruction and poison gas that might fall from the sky and will obliterate our civilization. But today, that will not happen, even if North Korea kept on reminding us how many missiles they have, still none of these dark fantasies happen. Those dark war fantasies are now equal to government sites being attacked by hackers, secrets kept by the government are being exposed to the sky via satellite. Our personal information will scatter leaving people alive but barely breathing. Those attacks on computer networks are today's most devastating form of war.

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Sixty-eight Philippine government websites were subjected to hacker attacks last 2016. The website of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas was also subjected to this attack, good thing the authorities foiled it.

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We might be ready physically but are we ready digitally? We live in a new world now, we fear the black mirror more than our own reflection. We do all things online, nowadays you can get your NBI clearance, you can check your taxes you can access all of your government accounts online, You are now virtual.

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Our country, despite having the slowest internet connection still, we place everything online. It is frightening that in just one click, just a group of college students who are techy savvy can ruin a country and start-up a controversy. 

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Trump and Kim Jong Un throwing shade at each other via satellite, we saw the Las Vegas Mass Shooting on Facebook and marked ourselves safe even if we are not there. We sympathize over the suffering of people on the other side of the globe.

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The world today is a global village, a change in another country is felt by another no matter how far it is from us. We are now a world build inside a cyberspace connected by a fine line that unifies us, as a world.

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When we think of a protest we tend to think about people gathered together with one principle, now when we say protest we change our profile picture.

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When we think of a celebration we think about happy people in a room drinking champagne together but now celebration means 3  million tweets and you're trending worldwide.

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War is no longer about dead people on the streets, it's about people losing their identity online and a country losing its virtual sovereignty.

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We cannot say what's worse. Not yet.