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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50765-2002Jun26.html

Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda Feared

The devices are called distributed control systems, or DCS, and supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems. The simplest ones collect measurements, throw railway switches, close circuit-breakers or adjust valves in the pipes that carry water, oil and gas. More complicated versions sift incoming data, govern multiple devices and cover a broader area.

What is new and dangerous is that most of these devices are now being connected to the Internet -- some of them, according to classified "Red Team" intrusion exercises, in ways that their owners do not suspect.

Because the digital controls were not designed with public access in mind, they typically lack even rudimentary security, having fewer safeguards than the purchase of flowers online

[crazykatz]

What about this Jacksonville story from earlier this year about my daughter's friends....a Croatian refugee married to a Serb( from Croatia) goes to a store which sells food stuffs that are used in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern coooking....she is with her 16 year old daughter...they are speaking about buying some feta cheese in their language... when a MIDDLE EASTERN MAN, very dark, she said, comes up to them and speaking in Serbo-Croatian, tells them that he had been in Bosnia fighting for their freedom with their men and how sorry he was that they had to come to the TERRIBLE USA because the Serbs took so much of their Bosnian Homeland!

Well, my daughter's friend, said she grabed her daughter's hand and they FLED THE STORE and the MAN....she said she was still shaking when she called me to tell my daughter right after it happened.

Now, if the man thinks America is so TERRIBLE...WHAT THE HECK IS he DOING HERE??????