cyber-9/11

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> From the just-introduced Rockefeller-Snowe bill (U.S. Senate S.773)
(http://www.infracritical.com/papers/cybersec4.pdf): 

 

2(10) According to the National Journal, Mike McConnell, the former
Director of National Intelligence, told President Bush in May 2007 that
if the 9/11 attackers had chosen computers instead of airplanes as their
weapons and had waged a massive assault on a U.S. bank, the economic
consequences would have been ''an order of magnitude greater'' than
those cased by the physical attack on the World Trade Center. Mike
McConnell has subsequently referred to cybersecurity as the ''soft
underbelly of this country.''

 

I read this and I have to ask, basically, WTF does this mean? On top of
it not being within the capabilities of Al Qaeda to do such a thing, I
have to wonder what they could really have done.

 

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/ <http://security.eweek.com/> 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
<http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/> 
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com
<mailto:larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com> 

 

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