Cyber War
Blackouts hit New York, Los Angeles, Washington and more than 100 other American cities. Subways crash. Trains derail. Airplanes fall from the sky. Gas pipelines explode. Chemical plants release clouds of toxic chlorine. Banks lose all their data. Weather and communication satellites spin out of their orbits. And the Pentagon’s classified networks grind to a halt, blinding the greatest military power in the world.
And it only takes 15 minutes.
The U.S. needs to beef up the defense of our online networks. We’re the most technically advanced country on Earth. Yet computer hackers in North Korea could theoretically destroy our way of life and cause our advantages to dissipate from the safety of their own bunkers — without actions that would be obviously classified as an act of war.
If an enemy were to launch a missile into Wall Street, we would react. But if an enemy were to launch a computer assault, would we react as decisively?
The U.S. Cyber Command is barely up and running, and there are already government turf wars with the National Security Agency.
Let me guess: There’s an easy way to prepare for the coming cyber war, if only the government gets a teensy bit more power over its citizens? Yeah…..
MRSA, cyber war, biological war, currency devaluation, terrorist attacks, swine flu, inflation. I think I’m going to go home and crawl under my blanket to hide from all of this.
This is a bit scary.
he should write for hollywood.
Of course, if you are really worried about this, the best solution is decentralization, then terrorists can only take down a small portion of the grid/water supply/etc. Hardly the solution the book advocates.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/cyberwar-richard-clarke/