Though the intent is good, this article confuses cyberwar with personal ID theft. Two different animals, should be broken into two articles.
Cyber Warfare : if power grid down, personal information stolen, bank accounts hacked, internet down, etc.
"It has been reported that over 100 million Americans’ personal data has (already) been compromised"
How do you prepare / alternatives ?
Cash reserves, Life Lock, credit monitoring, food and water storage, medical billing theft, credit card callback verification ?
More likely, the breach in security was made because Obama wanted to help Iran develop nuclear weapons, as his actions since then have amply demonstrated.
Genset, water reserves, lots of guns, and liberal anti gun Mormon neighbor who has it coming!
James Woolsey has just joined the Trump team as an advisor. EMP and electric grid security are important issues to him. I hope that Trump will be open to his suggestions.
It would not be that difficult to harden the grid against these attacks, and that is one function of the National Government that I would endorse because it is defending our country!
Glad author’s subdivision is encouraging some preparedness. Hard to estimate what people are doing privately, but I have house-sat for a couple neighbors...they are not prepared from what I saw when I went in pantry for pet food.
Key is getting everybody prepared on some level for an emergency—could be power outage, flood, tornado, quake or EMP...
Sadly, people in my area are very complacent and ill prepared...We practically never have outages, floods, tornadoes, or quakes, so people don’t prepare...
Last spring we actually had a 3-hour outage, and my neighbor did not even know where a flashlight was...
I am so screwed.