>From the just-introduced Rockefeller-Snowe bill (U.S. Senate S.773) (http://www.infracritical.com/papers/cybersec4.pdf):
2(10) According to the National Journal, Mike McConnell, the former Director of National Intelligence, told President Bush in May 2007 that if the 9/11 attackers had chosen computers instead of airplanes as their weapons and had waged a massive assault on a U.S. bank, the economic consequences would have been ''an order of magnitude greater'' than those cased by the physical attack on the World Trade Center. Mike McConnell has subsequently referred to cybersecurity as the ''soft underbelly of this country.'' I read this and I have to ask, basically, WTF does this mean? On top of it not being within the capabilities of Al Qaeda to do such a thing, I have to wonder what they could really have done. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ <http://security.eweek.com/> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ <http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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