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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Re:Why is important infrastructure online?

[TWR]

Good. You don't like the capitalist solution to this? Fine, we'll use the Communist solution, as implemented by every Communist society in the world.

I'll order you to go to the remote place to sit there 24/7, just in case something goes wrong. If you say no, I'll shoot you.

Happier? Or did you expect the gun to be pointed at someone else?

-jon