Schmidt Predicts Digital Sky Is Falling

Posted by michael on Tuesday July 23, 2002 @02:32AM from the dict-cullion dept.

Danse writes "Former Microsoft security chief Howard Schmidt now works for the government as the vice chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. According to this article on Security Focus, he has been touring the country, proclaiming the dangers of "zero-day viruses" and "affinity worms" that will create the kind of havoc that nothing else short of a nuclear exchange could cause. "Traffic lights, pacemakers, appliances -- all subject to outages and interruptions because in the future they're controlled via Internet, declares Schmidt. The power grid could fail catastrophically by 2005!" How do you argue with this kind of rhetoric, especially when it's being spread directly by government officials to corporate leaders?"

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Re:There's no hope. by T1girl · 2002-07-23 02:43 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm sorry now that I ate all the peanut butter and drank the wine that I was saving for Y2K. I think I still have some of the crackers and canned beef stew, though.
Re:Pacemaker... by Psion · 2002-07-23 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Ah! It does this by turning your heart on and off really fast, just like the way sound was produced on the old TRS-80s?