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ExpatinArgentina
01-19-2008, 09:55 AM
First comes fear then comes the govt promise to make us more secure as they take away freedoms and monitor more aspects of our lives. The internet is next. Here is the beginning with the fear factor.

Hackers Have Attacked Foreign Utilities, CIA Analyst Says
Washtington Post
Saturday, January 19, 2008; Page A04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011803277.html?hpid=moreheadlines

"We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet," Tom Donahue, the CIA's top cybersecurity analyst, said Wednesday at a trade conference in New Orleans.

Donahue's comments were "designed to highlight to the audience the challenges posed by potential cyber intrusions," CIA spokesman George Little said. The audience was made up of 300 U.S. and international security officials from the government and from electric, water, oil and gas companies, including BP, Chevron and the Southern Co.

asgardshill
01-19-2008, 10:14 AM
Isn't it just a little bit insane for any public utility to allow J. Random Hacker access to its controls and networks? They DO have these things called "Intranets" - look into them.

Stoli
01-19-2008, 10:24 AM
Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, is drafting a plan calling for the federal government to secretly watch America's cyberspace, a proposal that will raise obvious personal privacy issues. McConnell tells The New Yorker in the issue which just hit newsstands that his plan will make the current debate over surveillance law look like "a walk in the park."

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Melissa
01-19-2008, 10:26 AM
wrote mine thanks