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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 05:27 AM EDT |
It would be nice to know what the real risks are but I am far from convinced
that normal citizens like myself have that opportunity.
I have no doubt that there are many who do not hesitate to use fearmongering to
grab power and to stifle liberty. But I am also convinced that at least here in
the U.S. we (royal we) have been entirely too glib about carelessly connecting
important infrastructure to the Internet, ignoring all common sense. As others
in this thread have noted we don't have sufficient air gaps. But even then it
is sobering to realize that, as I understand it, Stuxnet was designed to, and
succeeded in, getting around air gaps.
It would seem to take a knowledgable and alert citizenry and responsible
leadership to navigate this situation w/o, on one hand, suffering crippling
blows to our infrastructure or, on the other hand having what's left of our
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 07:00 PM EDT |
>> Even if the net were rendered unusable for a few days, so what
anybody who has lived in the colder regions would have been
snowbound and life goes on. <<
You or I could survive with no internet for a few days. There's a lot of
the lifeblood of commerce flows thru the intarwebs nowadays, and
a few hours outage will have significant effects. Think banking, airlines.
Sure there could be old fashioned fallback methods, but in the time
taken to get those up and running, the patient might have died.
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