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    Electronic Pearl Harbor! In 2007, Foreign Gov't Hackers Penetrated the U.S.

    On Bush's Watch, U.S. Suffered Its "Electronic Pearl Harbor"

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    Sunday's 60 Minutes featured a pretty terrifying report on the potential threat the United States faces from cyberterrorism. It's territory that the show has mined before.

    As Steve Kroft pointed out at the outset of the report, the show had "less than a decade ago" gone to the Pentagon to learn more about how computers could be used by hackers "as a weapon." "Much of it was still theory," Kroft related, "But we were told that before too long, it might be possible for a hacker with a computer to disable critical infrastructure in a major city, and disrupt essential services, to steal millions of dollars from banks all over the world, infiltrate defense systems, extort millions from public companies, even sabotage our weapons systems."

    Eep! Sounds like someone better get on that, before something terrible happens! Except guess what, something terrible already did. "Plus a lot that we don't even know about," Kroft said. Great.

    Enter Jim Lewis, who directs the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who says that the United States experienced its "electronic Pearl Harbor" in 2007:

    LEWIS: Some unknown foreign power, and honestly, we don't know who it is, broke into the Department of Defense, to the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, probably the Department of Energy, probably NASA. They broke into all of the high tech agencies, all of the military agencies, and downloaded terabytes of information.

    Lewis goes on to point out that the entire Library Of Congress is the equivalent of 12 terabytes, so that sort of puts things in perspective, doesn't it? And it's not like hackers were making off with William Faulkner novels!

    And last November, according to Lewis, "someone was able to get past the firewall and encryption devices of one of the most sensitive U.S. military computer systems and stay inside for several days." That system? The CENTCOM network, which you might know as "the people who are fighting all of our wars." The hackers were able to sit inside the network, tracking information and documents "like they were part of military command."

    This, Lewis said, is the "most significant" breach of security ever "acknowledged by the Pentagon." Not acknowledging this, however, is the Bush administration, on whose watch all of this happened. Asked why the public was never told about the extent to which the United States had already suffered significant cyber-casualties, Lewis said: "You know, I've been trying to figure out why that is. And some of it is the previous administration didn't want to admit that they had been rolled in 2007." Worse yet, in Lewis' estimation, the seriousness of the threat, even now, "doesn't seem to be sinking in."

    Hopefully, Liz Cheney will find some way to waterboard the Internet!
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    Like I used to read about plots in the 60s to dump a quart of LSD into some city's water supply.
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    Old news.

    Let's concentrate on the current Turd-in-Chief, Oblahma.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBadBrian View Post
    Old news.

    Let's concentrate on the current Turd-in-Chief, Oblahma.
    Well, first of all retard, it's not "old news," it's a critical issue that exposes Americas, and the Western World's, Achilles Heal regardless of when it happened. Maybe you could once take time out of starting another partisan faggotry thread about a "Democratic Senator Makes Smelly Fart in Public!" to actually comment on a critical issue? like the fact that the Chinese could shut down the US power grid in the event of a potential conflict?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBadBrian View Post
    Old news.

    Let's concentrate on the current Turd-in-Chief, Oblahma.
    And the only time you "concentrate on the current Turd-in-Chief" is when you're about to ejaculate....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hardrock69 View Post
    Like I used to read about plots in the 60s to dump a quart of LSD into some city's water supply.
    Judging by some of the posts around here, someone did.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nickdfresh View Post
    Well, first of all retard, it's not "old news," it's a critical issue that exposes Americas, and the Western World's, Achilles Heal regardless of when it happened. Maybe you could once take time out of starting another partisan faggotry thread about a "Democratic Senator Makes Smelly Fart in Public!" to actually comment on a critical issue? like the fact that the Chinese could shut down the US power grid in the event of a potential conflict?
    Thanks for the link. I haven't watched it yet, but I am stopping to right now. I never bought the official story of the power outage of 2003. It had dabbles of truth such as over grown trees touch power lines and A software bug known as a race condition existed.
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    Wow, that report really shines a light on the importance of made in America for America by American.
    Fact is the misguided belief of corporation success bottom line thinking is not going to save our sovereignty.
    And this is true for any nation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blaze View Post
    Wow, that report really shines a light on the importance of made in America for America by American.
    Applications that require harware-level authentication can't be downloaded.

    Foreign governments are able to do a little damage but not alot, or they'd have done it already.
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    If it's on 60 Minutes AND Dickforbreath finds it fascinating and posts it, WOW, we should wake up and take heed!


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    Quote Originally Posted by gar View Post
    applications that require harware-level authentication can't be downloaded.
    wtf?

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    I think he's talking about power grid communications hardware and internet access...

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    Fuck knows,the GARGoogle™ doesn't work so well when he gets into technical subjects especially technology.

    Maybe a Mexican can tell us...

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    Si Señor





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    Dig that fancy meter panel...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    If it's on 60 Minutes AND Dickforbreath finds it fascinating and posts it, WOW, we should wake up and take heed!


    Why don't you go rape the fuck-hole in your Alex Jones doll, tin-foil shithead?

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    Why don't you go re-read the thread already posted on this topic, since you were obviously too drunk to remember it, asswipe...



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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    Why don't you go re-read the thread already posted on this topic, since you were obviously too drunk to remember it, asswipe...


    The one about you masturbating the Alex Jones' 9/11 theories (of how he can make more money off the victims' torment)?

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