I think the effects of cyber terrorism are being blown out of proportion. Cyber terrorism takes a great deal of technical skill and intuition to carryout with any success. Some 16 year old that spends his time running scripts on any machine he finds is not going to cause a great deal of damage. The only people currently known to have sufficent knowledge, desire and skill tend to have little desire to cause great amounts of damage. One of the first CT events of moderate damage was a programming bug in the first place. This would be the RTM Internet worm. It was only ment to traverse the internet to see how far it would propagate. Unfortunatly it replicated far faster than RTM had envisioned thus causing the massive shutdown. People such as this are far more interested in aquisition of information or the 'Thrill of the hunt'. If they have access or knowledge of the techniques for breaking into critical systems, then they have little reason to show their presence.
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I think the effects of cyber terrorism are being blown out of proportion. Cyber terrorism takes a great deal of technical skill and intuition to carryout with any success. Some 16 year old that spends his time running scripts on any machine he finds is not going to cause a great deal of damage. The only people currently known to have sufficent knowledge, desire and skill tend to have little desire to cause great amounts of damage. One of the first CT events of moderate damage was a programming bug in the first place. This would be the RTM Internet worm. It was only ment to traverse the internet to see how far it would propagate. Unfortunatly it replicated far faster than RTM had envisioned thus causing the massive shutdown.
People such as this are far more interested in aquisition of information or the 'Thrill of the hunt'. If they have access or knowledge of the techniques for breaking into critical systems, then they have little reason to show their presence.
Well... I will say that Michigan is the Internet C@pitol, when I get better than a 26K connection in Grandville.
I keep on badgering ATT@HOME to get service out here but noooooooo.... They do not feel like upgrading this town.
Yea, I think I remember palisades having quite a few problems 3 or 4 years back. Wonder if they've gotten their act together.