On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Robert Munn<[email protected]> wrote: > > It's a bad bill and a bad idea. The government needs to stay out of > private > > networks. > > I would tend to agree by and large but to play devils advocate here, > how is this different than shutting down all air travel after 9/11? > In principle, I'm not sure what the difference in power is. Bush didn't have specific authority to shut down air travel, but given the attacks and what we feared might even be tens of thousands of deaths in the WTC, he would have been reckless to do otherwise. More pragmatically, I don't see cyber attacks as posing the same level of threat. The essence of the problem after the initial 9/11 attacks was that every plane in the air was a potential WMD- thousands of individual threats that could only be dealt with by grounding every plane. I can't imagine a scenario in a cyberattack that would pose the same risk, and I can't imagine a responsible company ignoring a *request* from the President to cut of network segments in the event of a serious attack. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303076 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
