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Sat May 27 2000
Today, the "Great Northeast Blackout" influences the most popular cyberterror fears. The inevitable hacker-induced blackout goes with the hacker-induced 911 outage as a central doctrine for executive, congressional and industry believers who say that cyberterrorism is a serious and immediate threat to the Western World.
National Security Council Terrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke put it this way to the New York Times: "You black out a city, people die. Black out lots of cities, lots of people die. It's as bad as being attacked by bombs."
California will be the last strong hold in the US, if things go the way they are going.
Originally posted by dragonrider
Now, (total conjecture here), IF this virus had a few subroutines that we didnt know about, or at least that the public has not been told about, is it not possible that such a widespread virus attack could easily attack computers controlling the main infrastructure support networks?
Oh, Indeed it could, my friend. In fact, I am trying to reasearch this point and figure out if I can come up with any leads. Whatever I get I shall post here for you all.