Hum, why do they need the people to be afraid this time: the last time they did this it was called "weapons of mass destruction" and before we knew it a couple of countries were invaded. 

Thx, Albert

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On 2012-12-09, at 11:23 AM, ted chittenden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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.
> --
> Ted Chittenden
> 
> Every story has at least two sides if not more.
> ---- Deborah Kendrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> U-s-government-warned-of-9-11-like-cyber-attack-67071d7042
> 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.
> SEE ALSO:
> Facebook Hacks Its Employees to Teach Lessons on Cyberattacks
> 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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