Cyber-Attacks?

Galahad2 writes "The Washington Post has a lengthy article about the Bush administration's fears of an Al Qaeda cyber attack on the nation's infrastructure. Though we have all seen this sort of attack as a possiblity for a long time, I'm having a hard time believing that Al Qaeda is capable of anything along these lines." You're not the only one. The article does cite an example of the only known infrastructure attack, a case in Australia where a consultant used his inside knowledge of a local sewage treatment system to dump raw sewage, hoping for a contract to solve the problem he created.

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There seems to be no intelligence in CIA...

[Anonymous Coward]

... if they say:

One al Qaeda laptop found in Afghanistan, sources said, had made multiple visits to a French site run by the Societé Anonyme, or Anonymous Society.

Societé Anonyme, or SA, is French equivalent of Incorporated Company. Not a secret society...

"We found a laptop that has visited a site of an Incorporated Company!"
"Oooooh, scary!"

Heck, even Amazon.fr is a SA, and they also sell books...