08.06.12
‘This is not scaremongering’
Senate Republicans regularly promote themselves as the true custodians of national security. This claim seemed particularly hollow last week when they helped block a new measure aimed at protecting America’s vulnerable computer networks from attack by, among others, potentially hostile foreign governments …
The cost of inaction is already high. Every day, China and other foreign governments, hackers and criminals are working to break into American computer networks. They have targeted major companies and military contractors; last year there were 200 attacks on vital infrastructure — power plants, electric grids, refineries, transportation networks and water treatment systems.
Most of these facilities are owned by the private sector, whose defenses are dangerously weak. Many companies do not even insist on secure passwords for computers. Nightmare scenarios include computer attacks that shut down the stock exchange, a nuclear power plant, the nation’s rail system or all three at once.
This is not scaremongering.
Yes it is. Outside computer attacks that shut down the stock exchange. Give it a rest.
O hai. No can haz
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