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U.S. Warns of Possible Cyber Biz Attack
mikesd81 writes "The AP has an article about a possible attack against the New York Stock Exchange via the internet by a radical muslim group. The notice was issued to the U.S. cybersecurity industry after officials saw a posting on a 'Jihadist Web site' calling for an attack on U.S. Internet-based stock market and banking sites in December, said Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke. Knocke has said: 'There is no information corroborating the threat and that the alert was issued as a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution.' There is no immediate threat to our homeland at this time. The attacks were to be conducted in December, 'until the infidel new year,' the site said, according to a U.S. government translation. It called for attackers to use viruses that can penetrate Internet sites and destroy data stored there. Spokespeople for the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq declined to comment on the cyber-terror threat."
If I wanted fear mongering info, I'd be watching Fox.
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Actually, I'd think either the terrorists or intelligence agencies are picking random Tom Clancy plots for their planes. Debt of Honor had the crashing of stock markets by the japanese using a backdoor, the plane crashing at the pentagon killing almost all of the chain of command, and also a focused laser disguised into a camera that was aimed at cockpit of airplanes when they were landing to make them crash, which, IIRC, was also warned as a possible terrorist act sometime ago.. :)
In fact, it is far more likely to be a right wing group trying to push some terrorism angle or some MS backer trying to get these companies off of *nix (which is what the banking and most exchanges including NYSE run).
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Well, you're just factually incorrect (and, of course, you know you are).
Not at all. While there are bad people out there, the extent of the threat was completely overblown for political purposes.
Al Queda, while it does exist has also been blown way out of proportion. There is no huge world spanning massive conspiracy of terrorists out to hate on us for our freedom or any of the other ridiculous nonsense that has been the Republicans' entire stock in trade for a long time.
Also, gays are not a threat to marriage. Democrats are not going to burn people's bibles.
You see, those are essentially everything that the Republicans consider to be issues.
Do you care to dispute that those last two are entirely nonsense, completely made up threats of no real consequence?
Or are you more of the "it never happened" camp?
No, I'm of the "It happened, but I'm not going to piss away my birthright out of cowardice".
All of the new "security" bullshit does more to strip innocent Americans of their rights than it does shit to stop terrorists.
Add that to the fact that the terrorist threat was way overblown, the Iraq invasion did nothing but increase that threat as was predicted by most credible obbservers long before we did invade.
Since then, fellow humans in places like Madrid or London would probably have no trouble convincing you that the threat from people deliberately planning, and executing, murderous attacks is not "made up," however comforting it must be to you to think that's the case.
Well, we have outscored them on deliberately planning and executing murderous attacks, keep that in mind at all times.
Add in the number of innocents sent off to death camps.
Add in the Patriot act, the unconstitutional wiretaps, the completely made up bullshit to sell the war in Iraq, and maybe you'll start to see what the real credible threat to America is.
Terrorists haven't done shit compared to what this Republican party have done to destroy freedom in this country.
So, no, it has nothing to do with thinking there are no threats.
It's the simple fact that by *any metric you care to come up with* the Republicans are a far greater threat to me my life, my liberty and my family than all of the terrorists in the world put together.
The cowardice you're accusing me of exhibiting is - to cite a little PSY101 - pretty much you projecting your own head-in-the-sand about this. I
Not at all. I am aware that there are threats.
My approach is to face them like a man on my feet defending my liberty.
Your approach is to pull your panties over your head and cry to big government to take away all our freedoms as long as they tell you they're making you safer.
That is a canonical example of cowardice.
The fact that due to the support of cowards like you for treasonous actions, we are much less safe, and the largely made up threat of terrorism is growing.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
Do you have any idea how absurd your point is? Your B Movie villain nonsense doesn't make any more sense in real life than it would in a cheesy movie.
Well, you're the one making up crap.
You still haven't addressed the 100% proven fact that we haqve tortured innocent people and murdered them in these camps.
You also have done nothing to *prove* that the people in these camps are guilty of anything.
Most importantly, you haven't done anything to address the fact that they are death camps.
So, until you can *prove* that the people being tortured and murdered in these death camps are all guilty of the most heinous of crimes, you lose. You lose on moral grounds, you lose on constitutional grounds, and you lose by making *anything* no matter how disgusting, that is done to our soldiers legitimate.
You can't piss away the moral high ground and then deny responsibility for the consequences.
Of course, avoiding responsibility for their actions is a theme with Bushies.
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