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Some people here must get an orgasmic high out of being afraid of claptrap that shows up in newspapers. Maybe if they're lucky, there'll be another asteroid on a collision course with Earth when CNN comes to terms with the arrival of another hot, dull August.

Do you actually have a legitimate argument to make as to what's wrong with the article, or are you merely interested in tossing around empty insults?

Do you actually have a legitimate argument to make as to what's wrong with the article, or are you merely interested in tossing around empty insults?

Sure, but the point is, do they? Does the FBI actually think it can protect any company computer from breakins without controlling the network those computers run on? There are websites chock full of examples of computer systems that have been broken into with impunity, mainly because of an incompetent sysadmin. I you look back far enough, the FBI's website is probably on one of those lists. Large portions of the internet have been shut down by distributed DOS attacks and by hobos lighting fires underneath fiber optic cables for that matter. Regardless of what the FBI does, the organizations that depend on computer networks in order to do what they do are going to have to keep their own systems secure so that they can continue to operate, regardless of whether we're talking about an oil crisis, hurricane, terrorist attack, or some bored 13 year old kid. Credit card fraud is routine. Right now out west, countless acres of land are going up in smoke. Hurricanes, flooding, and severe blizzards have hit some part of the country within the last two years. I also recall that a big percentage of New York's business district and communications infrastructure crumbled to dust last year, half of California was subject to rolling blackouts (never mind the huge ones that occured before we had the technology we have now. btw, remember three mile island?), one, maybe more to come, of the world's corporations have been tempting fate (not to mention all of the air carriers in the US), and yet here we are. Now you won't find me arguing with you that if a super-secret conspiracy of muslim radicals were to set off 45 megaton suitcase nukes in all of the nation's major cities and thoroughfares simultaneously, we would be screwed. I'm not denying that. Don't think that I'm not grateful that folks in the press and our government have been thinking of all the sophisticated nasty things evildoers everywhere could do to us, but I just have to wonder if these were the same people who were arguing over the best way to stop 5 men armed with box cutters from successfully hijacking a jet plane.