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Let me say I was an account manager for a security company 3000+ seat accounts... You don't even want to know how real of a situation this is. Also, you might want to worry more about the security company than the terrorists. The fact that everything is digital means that the terrorists have had access for years to systems and access was given to them by their fellow IT friends.
My father was a global manager for a computer / electronics company . He's retired now ,but the things he showed me make me believe this is a very real possibility . Just good to know he's on the right side .
Big CyberSecurity seminar event going on in the Springs today and tomorrow (just found out about it this afternoon).
"cyber security" is the latest buzz words.
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Don't buy (completely) into the hype..
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)
I agree that there is a lot of hype but if the developers of Stuxnet were on the other side things might be a lot different.Originally Posted by asmotao
Lol stuxnet isn't what you need to worry about. Enterprise companies pay millions for threat removals for targeted threats that they don't even know has infected their whole enterprise until after it has compromised all of the systems.
Oh yeah. I brokered those deals. =) We're past hype.
Honey Badger don't care about banks or power grid. Just go underground and live like the Badger pimp he's supposed to be.
That's pretty much the plan!
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― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Nothing like the movies, but a lot of that is possible. There are many ways that the us could be brought down in an afternoon. Personally in light of all the crap going on in Iran and North Korea I worry about the "1 second after" possibility as well. Coordinating a sustained blackout of the grid through computers would be very difficult. The power plant that I work at has been making a lot of security upgrades recently though, so I wonder what has been going around in these "cyber security" meetings.
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