Monday, April 26, 2010

Para-terrorism & Cyber wars: The Affects That Cripple Power Grids, Financial Systems and Safety

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Per magazine’s April 26, 2010 edition’s article Weapons of Mass Disruption by Andy Greenberg, has crippled the East Coast’s power grid, the world’s financial systems, and oil refineries in Houston & Philadelphia.

is a major part of the cyber wars. The cyber wars are not just for stealing money,  now it includes major that fight for control of our safety.

Richard Clarke warned of the by of al Qaeda, and was ignored. The Sept. 11, 2001 bombings woke everyone up.

has warned from the grave about personal financial attacks from the . Other countries have a worst threat than the United States. An example is , the electric bill is national. The United States produces electricity and the bills are from household to household.

With the large switch from , Richard Clarke again has a warning about a digital doomsday and the need to be treated like nuclear weapons---multi-tiered responses.

Google has recently admitted being hacked, China is under a microscope for that and as the article from states, cyber war treaties, it is hoped that Google and China make one. The is defined in the .

In conclusion, cyber danger, para-terrorism, and more effort is needed to maintain a safe international environment.

1 comment:

  1. This is an interesting and extremely pertinent article. The switch from analog to digital does leave of vulnerable in ways we may not have paid much attention to. I sure hope our government pays attention to these warnings, this time around, as opposed to the response to the 9/11 warnings. Thanks for a great read!

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