Posted on 02/03/2010 9:12:41 AM PST by Kartographer
The United States is at risk of a crippling cyber attack that could "wreak havoc" on the country because the "technological balance" makes it much easier to launch a cyber strike than defend against it, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Tuesday.
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I heard a little piece back before Christmas that all of the digital picture frames had viruses embedded courtesy of the Chinese. Sounds harmless but put 1M+ of them out there and you can create havoc.
Well, I don't know about you... but I don't have any of those "digital picture frames" that you buy at Best Buy or Walmart... LOL...
Maybe there are a few FReepers who do have them, but I don't think a virus/worm in a device that sits on your table and flashed family pictures at you -- is going to be such a monstrous threat to national security... :-)
Who knows... the Chinese might be wanting to give old grandmas and grandpas a heart attack by flashing some "porn pictures" at them... LOL...
yes ; but I'm sure it will be "fast tracked" by 0bama et al.e.g. Eric Holder
We are screwed if a cyber attack really occurs. No ATMs, no online banking, no email communications.
Well, there is something simpler than that...
Just lob a missile over one part of the U.S. and set of a nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere (no damage to any structures in the U.S., mind you...) -- and we'll all be "back to the stone age" in the U.S. with no electronics of any kind operating after that one blast.
All anyone has to do (a country or a terrorist group) is use a ship out at sea, as a platform for launch, and "it's all over"...
No worms or viruses needed...
“Slow” or “fast” doesn’t make too much difference when it happens in the end, anyway...
Given how much money Obama is diverting from the CIA budget (away from things like monitoring Chinese signals traffic) towards studying "global warming", I think we can be grateful for one small mercy - namely that "climate change" was not the danger this Obama stooge highlighted.
Ya from Clintons buddies the Chicoms. I wish that there were someone with the Cajones enough to prosecute the democrats that have hurt this country for the past 50 years.
HAHAHA barama would blame Bush and Instate Martial law..
Because there would be nothing better for America than a Federal government returned to its mid-19th century capabilities.
Not for one NY second......
Thank goodness the Founders didn’t have to rely on the Internet for their Committees of Correspondence to get the message through.
They met face-to-face to plan their revolution.
May we profit from their example.
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