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Intel Chief: US at Risk of Crippling Cyber Attack
FoxNews ^ | 2/3/10

Posted on 02/03/2010 9:12:41 AM PST by Kartographer

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To: dumpthelibs
You were saying ...

I heard a little piece back before Christmas that all of the digital picture frames had viruses embedded courtesy of the Chinese. Sounds harmless but put 1M+ of them out there and you can create havoc.

Well, I don't know about you... but I don't have any of those "digital picture frames" that you buy at Best Buy or Walmart... LOL...

Maybe there are a few FReepers who do have them, but I don't think a virus/worm in a device that sits on your table and flashed family pictures at you -- is going to be such a monstrous threat to national security... :-)

Who knows... the Chinese might be wanting to give old grandmas and grandpas a heart attack by flashing some "porn pictures" at them... LOL...

21 posted on 02/03/2010 9:57:29 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
yes ; but I'm sure it will be "fast tracked" by 0bama et al.

e.g. Eric Holder


22 posted on 02/03/2010 9:58:17 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: dumpthelibs
You were saying ...

We are screwed if a cyber attack really occurs. No ATMs, no online banking, no email communications.

Well, there is something simpler than that...

Just lob a missile over one part of the U.S. and set of a nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere (no damage to any structures in the U.S., mind you...) -- and we'll all be "back to the stone age" in the U.S. with no electronics of any kind operating after that one blast.

All anyone has to do (a country or a terrorist group) is use a ship out at sea, as a platform for launch, and "it's all over"...

No worms or viruses needed...

23 posted on 02/03/2010 10:00:33 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

“Slow” or “fast” doesn’t make too much difference when it happens in the end, anyway...


24 posted on 02/03/2010 10:01:19 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
I mean... how much "warning" are you talking about... LOL...

Given how much money Obama is diverting from the CIA budget (away from things like monitoring Chinese signals traffic) towards studying "global warming", I think we can be grateful for one small mercy - namely that "climate change" was not the danger this Obama stooge highlighted.

25 posted on 02/03/2010 10:05:26 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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To: Kartographer

Ya from Clintons buddies the Chicoms. I wish that there were someone with the Cajones enough to prosecute the democrats that have hurt this country for the past 50 years.


26 posted on 02/03/2010 10:16:44 AM PST by crazydad
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To: Mariner

HAHAHA barama would blame Bush and Instate Martial law..


27 posted on 02/03/2010 10:18:08 AM PST by crazydad
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To: Kartographer
Is there something like SETI-at-Home that I can contribute CPU cycles to that will help cripple the Federal government?

Because there would be nothing better for America than a Federal government returned to its mid-19th century capabilities.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

28 posted on 02/03/2010 10:23:53 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Kartographer

Not for one NY second......


29 posted on 02/03/2010 11:14:52 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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Thank goodness the Founders didn’t have to rely on the Internet for their Committees of Correspondence to get the message through.

They met face-to-face to plan their revolution.

May we profit from their example.


30 posted on 02/03/2010 2:58:39 PM PST by DNME (Remember, we are still under a state of national emergency for H1N1! Remain vigilant!)
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