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A Cyber-Attack On an American City

Posted by timothy on from the if-by-one-day-you-mean-already dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported. So I decided to change that."

2 of 461 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Personally, I think the war our federal government has waged on gun ownership is to blame.

    There used to be a time in this country when the fear of being shot to death was a strong deterrent for criminal activity, let alone trespassing.

    I for one advocate not only the owning of guns, but the usage of them on criminals as well.

  2. Re:Terrorists? Probably not. by fisticuffs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bruce, pardon my tinfoil hat, but could it have been a 3-letter agency running a live simulation? The data would be skewed if the participants knew it were an exercise.