Re: cyber-9/11

["Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm () igtc com>]

Blow up peering points?

Wait, I got it:  Rent 100's of backhoes across the country.  Dig in.

- Paul -


On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> 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://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com
>
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