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If a top intelligence expert said America was not prepared for war and, indeed, that if we went to war "we would lose," that would worry you, wouldn't it? Start worrying.
The expert is Mike McConnell, who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Clinton, and as Director of National Intelligence under President Bush. He was referring not to a conventional war, a guerrilla war or an insurgency. He was referring to a cyberwar. But understand: Cyberwar does not mean fun and video games. McConnell told a Senate committee last week that the risk we face from...
This War Would Be Hell Too
I'm more concerned about government and government agencies, precisely because their existence is not threatened by someone hacking in to their systems. Disrupt services and steal data from a government agency, and the agency will still continue. A business would go under, which is why the well-managed ones are diligent about network security.
Government agencies are responsible for all sorts of data that could be used for malevolent ends: Social Security Numbers, personal...