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U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say

edition.cnn.com — Experts say the recent computer attacks on Georgia signal a new kind of cyber war. The U.S. is not fully prepared for a large-scale, coordinated attack, experts say. Such attacks can be mounted anonymously and cheaply from anywhere in the world. A cyberattack on the U.S. could hobble utilities, transportation and other infrastructure

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  • chrism123, on 08/18/2008, -4/+126Well its a good thing the government has already prepared for this with the creation of the ipatriot act. Get ready for some hardcore internet censorship.

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=295
  • flashboy131, on 08/18/2008, -2/+79"And Internet security experts believe that it could be just as devastating to the U.S.'s economy and infrastructure as a deadly bombing."

    Well internet security experts would be out of a job if we weren't under this threat now would they? Fearmongering is done by people who have the most to gain.
  • Uncle_Joe, on 08/18/2008, -9/+72Only John McClane can save us now!
  • richmomz, on 08/19/2008, -1/+53Quick, we've got to enact content regulation and corporate control of the web before the eTerrorists get us!
  • borez, on 08/19/2008, -10/+55CNN, please... report some real ***** news and stop this scaremongering BS.

    This quote is brilliant: "Hackers mounted coordinated assaults on Georgian government, media, banking and transportation sites in the weeks before Russian troops invaded"

    FTR they didn't sodding invade anyone. Do you really think we were all born yesterday?
  • inactive, on 08/18/2008, -4/+40Hope we dont turn into countries like China
  • lickmyback, on 08/19/2008, -1/+35These types of scares will be used as a precursor to major internet censorship in the US, just like the terror scare sold an illegal war to an entire nation of people and then stripped them of their liberties. This is history repeating itself - red scare, war on drugs, war on terror - I've given up hoping that people will ever learn.
  • ShaoKahn, on 08/19/2008, -2/+33CNN, just shut the ***** up and read this declassified document signed by Rumsfeld:
    http://cryptome.org/io-roadmap.htm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
  • jlhoben, on 08/19/2008, -4/+35This is bull. They are preparing for martial law and the economic collapse of the USA.
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -3/+32Problem: They want to govern and control what can and can't be done on the Internet.

    Reaction: Orchestrate false flag cyberattack. People react - "We need to be saved from teh interwebs!"

    Solution: Enforce the Internet like a police state. Problem solved.
  • dafragsta, on 08/19/2008, -1/+28And remember who signed the second round of the patriot act. I believe that would be BOTH presidential candidates. Yay privacy violation and draconian law!
  • diggkid, on 08/19/2008, -2/+27FEAR, *****!
  • lacolonel, on 08/19/2008, -1/+25cnn. aka imagination land press.
  • nomadxx7, on 08/19/2008, -1/+23Given the comment about the iPatriot Act and how the Patriot Act was sitting in some government desk until the 9/11 attacks I foresee that our unpreparedness will help hasten this act into law. Either our government is figuring how to false flag an internet event to bring it about or they will sit on their asses while some foreign group does do it. Either way the inevitable path leads to more censorship.

    I honestly think our government has fun making us fear our shadows so they can pull the wool over our eyes
  • whiteknives, on 08/19/2008, -4/+24Too bad the majority of the websites you frequent are based in the U.S.
  • DesertDude, on 08/19/2008, -2/+22Time to start fingerprinting web users and storing their retina ID's.
  • inactive, on 08/18/2008, -6/+22I am happy to live in Canada.
  • lucy22, on 08/18/2008, -4/+19Yes I just read they were able to shut down all of Georgia's banking and government websites. The hackers can really make a mess, and the Russian government deny involvement in this.
  • Oppslagsverk, on 08/19/2008, -0/+15iPatriot? Oh my god...
  • inactive, on 08/18/2008, -2/+16Only after he's had his Aspirin for his hangover
  • artvandal, on 08/19/2008, -1/+15HACK THE PLANET!
  • blitz718, on 08/19/2008, -2/+16Yippe ki yay, *****
  • kmb1794, on 08/19/2008, -2/+15Next up—
    The taking away of internets
  • Fallout911, on 08/19/2008, -0/+13First thing that came to mind when I read the headline.
  • MrJeff, on 08/19/2008, -0/+13People love to use the word "Cyber". News at eleven.
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -0/+13Hasn't anyone played the original Splinter Cell!?
    The Georgians are the ones who do it!
  • Bakedwafer, on 08/19/2008, -1/+13This was already chronicled in the documentary 'Live Free or Die Hard'
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -8/+20Georgia killed two thousand russians for no reason. Someone defaced a web page though. This is really the same if you think about it. I'm glad CNN put a picture of hitler there. Hitler was known to deface web pages, and even do some denial of service attacks. CNN has gone completely neocon... but hey, they always were really, weren't they?
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -0/+12yeah ok, like these said cyberattackers are going to be able to hack the gibson
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -0/+12[common knowledge]
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -0/+11Exactly. Cyberattacks are just another excuse to destroy net neutrality. The real reason why I think in the future the US govt will do anything in its hand to destroy Net neutrality it's because is a kind of media in which it has no control AT ALL. Media Companies control over the internet will just be an unintentional collateral side effect of the said iPatriot Act.

    Just think about it. Where will you hear or watch from Documentaries like Zeitgeist: The Movie (whether you like it/agree with it or not), the thing is that with the internet in its current state you can watch it.
  • calmdownppl, on 08/19/2008, -0/+9Scott BORG says - "The chief targets will be critical infrastructure, and the attacks will emerge from within our own computer systems."

    Resistance is futile.
  • sockpuppets, on 08/19/2008, -12/+21This is precisely why I support John McCain and his carbon paper initiative. Can foreigners hack carbon paper? I doubt it.

    Vote McCain '08.
  • rockrapdude, on 08/19/2008, -2/+11*points finger*
    Ha ha, you're *****!

    /european
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -0/+9don't know why you're laughing.
    europe will follow.
  • YinofYang, on 08/19/2008, -2/+10This is news? Seriously?

    Hackers? I could have sworn hackers were born when the internet was born.
  • dondara, on 08/19/2008, -1/+9Every time I hear ***** like this, I look for what product they are trying to sell or what law they are trying to pass. It seems nowhere else are the people as scared and desperate to be "saved" as the in US. I don't know why that would be other than all the ***** they show on TV. The concept of "safe" is an illusion. There is no such thing as safe and there never will be. You harden your networks, enforce secure usage policies and that's about all you can do. And if it doesn't need to be networked, don't.
  • toxicshok, on 08/19/2008, -0/+8follow? ***** ever been to England? Their leading the charge
  • sandiegodude, on 08/19/2008, -1/+8Yay, more knee jerk reactions that will ultimately ***** our freedoms in the long run! Go go our government...
  • BranniganZapp, on 08/19/2008, -2/+9"I've given up hoping that people will ever learn." Amen! The Corporate Media will make sure that the sheep will remain afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.
  • YancyFryJr, on 08/19/2008, -1/+8Protip: Post foreign leaders' phone numbers on 4chan. Leave the rest to Anon.
  • pigfister, on 08/19/2008, -2/+9what propaganda bull *****, its the usa that is committing the terrorist attacks around the globe.
  • casek, on 08/19/2008, -2/+9i think you need to read the news. russia attacked after georgia killed all those peace workers.
    russians were only doing what is expected when you are attacked.
  • inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+8I learned. You learned. Many people in this thread learned. Don't give up hope - more people are waking up everyday.
  • SuicideMouse, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7We will be, the U.S. is going to "bomb" the internet with cyber attacks to give them validity.
  • ahhell, on 08/19/2008, -3/+10Bruce Willis will save us.

    There is nothing to worry about.
  • dakilla91, on 08/19/2008, -2/+9I just hope we don't get caught in a fire sale!
  • sockpuppets, on 08/19/2008, -3/+10English *****, do you speak it?
  • tidu, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7An "iPatriot" act would slide right through out government because they know nothing about computers
  • badassninja, on 08/19/2008, -1/+8LOL. The funny think is I have said that a few times on digg, but it was to someone speaking Arabic.
    Replace band with bad.
    I dugg your comment because it was funny as hell.
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