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CyberTerrorism - Reality or FUD?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ghost-in-the-machine dept.

Random Utinni writes "The director of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit (part of Homeland Security) claims that terrorist hackers are poised to create total chaos. He predicts all sorts of scenarios, from changing the formulae for medications to causing cars to explode after a few weeks of driving. Is this guy fearmongering for an increased budget, or is he on to something here?"

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  1. Dem cyberterrerrists by linvir · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's no good burying your heads in the sand. Cyberterrorism is VERY real

  2. Traffic lights by antiaktiv · · Score: 2, Funny

    We all know the most efficient way to cause chaos over the internet is to control the traffic lights to all turn green at the same time.
    I can't wait for it to actually happen.

    1. Re:Traffic lights by sorak · · Score: 2, Funny
      We all know the most efficient way to cause chaos over the internet is to control the traffic lights to all turn green at the same time. I can't wait for it to actually happen.

      Drivers in my home town have found a way around that. They tend to ignore traffic laws entirely.

  3. on to something here? by dazzawazza · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to suggest he is on something rather than on to something.

  4. Re:TERRORISM IS FUD PERIOD by tibike77 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hint: Shift+4. Keep holding.

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  5. great... by SekShunAte · · Score: 5, Funny

    now that it's been publicized we'll have terrorists sittin around in their boxers and socks drinkin beer at their puter screen giggling when they confuse the subway employees on the recipe for a roast beef sandwich.

  6. Re:Very Real Indeed! by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 2, Funny

    re:"There will always be more terrorists."

    Not if we had any balls and did the logical steps required to erradicate it.

    See much terrorism in China? Why is that do you suppose?

  7. HCF by nosredna · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sweet, we might finally have a working Halt and Catch Fire command in our lifetimes!

  8. Re:TERRORISM IS FUD PERIOD by misleb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhh! The corpses of the Twin Towers victims. Being waved around loudly on facist poles since Sep-2001.

    Since when has it become fashionable for Polish political extremists to wear corpses? That seems like a pretty big public health problem.

    -matthew

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  9. Re:TERRORISM IS FUD PERIOD by crmartin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Power, money, Jesus, hot and cold running hookers.

    Sounds like quite a party.

  10. Re:TERRORISM IS FUD PERIOD by ceoyoyo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your homicide rate is almost as high as your car accident fatality rate? You've either got the safest drivers in the world or....

  11. Re:Terror Via Highway Conditions Sign... by NSObject · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not as scary as Klaatu Barada Nikto.

  12. Re:Terror Via Highway Conditions Sign... by esmrg · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I had been driving along and seen "INCOMING NUKE ATTACK - EST 15 MIN", I would not have believed it, because - those signs are never correct.

    I would have expected the nuke attack to start in about 30 to 45 min instead.