On Bush's Watch, U.S. Suffered Its "Electronic Pearl Harbor" »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 1 week, 3 days ago in Business & FinanceSunday's 60 Minutes featured a pretty terrifying report on the potential threat the United States faces from cyberterrorism. It's territory that the show has mined before.
As Steve Kroft pointed out at the outset of the report, the show had "less than a decade ago" gone to the Pentagon to learn more about how computers could be used by hackers "as a weapon." "Much of it was still theory," Kroft related, "But we were told that before too long, it might be possible for a hacker with a computer to disable critical infrastructure in a major city, and disrupt essential services, to steal millions of dollars from banks all over the world, infiltrate defense systems, extort millions from public companies, even sabotage our weapons systems."
Eep! Sounds like someone better get on that, before something terrible happens! Except guess what, something terrible already did. "Plus a lot that we don't even know about," Kroft said. Great.
Enter Jim Lewis, who directs the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who says that the United States experienced its "electronic Pearl Harbor" in 2007:
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Tangent0011 week, 3 days ago
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One would need an entirely separate infrastructure: servers, cables, satellites, everything--worldwide. The cost would be in the hundreds of billions, and even then would not guarantee protection from attack. Computers linked to the .mil network could NEVER exchange files with those on the civilian network.
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By being able to access and analyze the Internet brings great intelligence benefit, but also makes us vulnerable to attack. It's a risk/benefit ratio.
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urme1 week, 3 days ago
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I got news for you, They stole 700 billion just as bush was leaving and obama was arriving. Also the day before the 9-11 mass- murder and WTC demolition rumsford announced the loss of many trillions by the pentagon , fortuniytly the missile hit that part of the pentagon that and all info was lost, also building 7 had the records on enron and worldcom, also all lost.
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ameliog1 week, 3 days ago
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yes. Quite the coincidences weren't they? Also, the $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills that went into Iraq and then disappeared, unaccounted for. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.ir...
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alanocu1 week, 2 days ago
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Bush also was responsible for the Holocaust, obviously.
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"Dude, did you watch John Stewart last night?"
"Yeah, I didn't know Bush was responsible for the Holocaust. You learn something new every day."
And liberals, we already know that Bush is the reason you failed to get a date on eHarmony.com. Remind us all again in a week. -
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philbrick1 week, 2 days ago
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They were probably talking about Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather and known Nazi sympathizer
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"The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.se...-
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epiphannyy1 week, 2 days ago
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Does anyone else wonder why no news like this is EVER reported in America? I mean, we're supposed to be the land of free press and protected speech, etc, yet news that seriously questions the families deeply entrenched in the power infrastructure of America NEVER gets reported.
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It's bad enough that so many Americans support the Bush family and their politics and activities without full knowledge of who they are and what they've done throughout history, but for the free press to ignore such facts and fail to educate and inform the American masses makes them complicit to it all.
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