Two comments:

1) The relationship between freedom and security, whether it be on or off of the Internet, is inversely proportional; that is, the more security you have, the less freedom you actually have.

2) It is absolutely impossible to make the Internet or anywhere else 100% secure. If somebody (or more likely a group of somebodys) wishes to destroy the Internet and the power grid as described in this article, they will find a way to do it no matter what security measures are put in place.
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Ted Chittenden

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Samantha Murphy
5 days ago
Is the Internet facing "the cyber equivalent of the World Trade Center
attack?" According
to a former security chief, the U.S. has already received its "9/11 warning"
for
a cyber-attack that could take down the banks, power and ultimately cripple
the economy.
Former U.S. Intelligence Chief John "Mike" McConnell, who served under
President
Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, told the
Financial News
the U.S. has already been warned about a huge potential cyber threat that
could have
a tremendous negative impact on the country.
"We have had our 9/11 warning. Are we going to wait for the cyber equivalent
of the
collapse of the World Trade Centers?" said McConnell, calling the warnings a
wake-up
call to businesses and political leaders.
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McConnell detailed what a large-scale cyber-attack could mean for the
country.
"All of a sudden, the power doesn't work, there's no way you can get money,
you can't
get out of town, you can't get online, and banking, as a function to make
the world
work, starts to not be reliable," he said. "Now, that is a cyber-Pearl
Harbor, and
it is achievable."
Although McConnell believes a terrorist group might not be able to carry out
such
an attack right now, sophisticated tools could fall into the wrong hands in
the future.
McConnell is currently vice chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton, a technology
consulting
firm which contracts with private businesses as well as the federal
government.
The news comes several months after a series of
cyber-attacks targeted major banks
such as JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America and crippled computers at a Saudi
Arabian
oil company Saudi Aramco in August.
In November, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta spoke at a meeting of
the Business
Executives for National Security and told leaders the events signaled "a
significant
escalation of the cyber threat."
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