Can our age of super fast internet make it easier for hackers?

Answering to the title - yes. What's worse, every device we own connects to the internet and to other devices (in fact, 50% of devices can do that even before we allow them - smart TVs, smartphones in general, other gadgets). What about anonymous data streaming? There's also another risk - people who fail to acknowledge the fact that breaches in servers are nothing too serious. I'm going to say that ww3 will be global. And it will be virtual, it's quite easy to see why. People invest in systems that you (as a hacker) can use virtually without any huge expenses. Heck, 'pros' can get trained all by themselves, there are no education expenses too! Get data = control. Would you like to disrupt systems? Disable power plants? Block the control rods from being inserted? Cut New York off power with the right access? Straight out of sci-fi? Nope, not anymore. That's why everything, and I mean everything has at least some kind of protection. Dams, police stations, LHC. Even that 'Curiosity' rover on Mars is protected from cyberattacks. And it's not martians that they fear :) Moving on to your 'partial files'. In practice, it is possible, but that's quite advanced. They have to find your pc and deliver the right files. Every time. But what if you decide not to download say last 2 bits? Game over for them. It's a lot better to have infected pcs accessing one another and exchanging those partial files. Similar to the torrents. As you can see, it's still not really worth it because who knows how many pcs will actually get infected? 10? A thousand? Such confusion is unlikely to attract 'pros', maybe it's enough to practice your knowledge of basic penetration testing, but nothing more. That's why you get 'complete' malicious files. You only need to make the mistake once, instead of making it 6-10 times. Of course, there's a plethora of things you can do once you have a device in your control. Spy, pump the data, brick it, blackmail... Smaller computer usage would be a step in the wrong direction. While we'd be using slow and despicable machines from the '00s, they'd be laughing out loud you could hear them :). They still have the same equipment as before. There's another problem. Do you like sitting there looking at the cirlce going round and round before it loads your gmail? The net is designed to work on faster and faster machines, besides, people got used to speed, didn't they? So we'd be hurting ourselves a lot. The ultimate answer is a defense system so intricate that you'd need supercomputers (controlled by supercomputers controlled by man) to access just a tiny bit of it. It should be like a snowflake - with a core and millions of streams to other cores. Is it possible? I hope so, but we cannot do it today. We're literally too dumb (we need to fully understand quantum combinatorics which doesn't even look possible in theory) :) Like white hats say, they have to take care of billions of loopholes and a bad guy only has to find one. But that's some advanced stuff. You can continue browsing safely as before, with caution of course ;)

It does make it easier for them, I am sure.