Unfortunately Blair is right and it isn’t just a frontal attack. 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. We are screwed if a cyber attack really occurs. No ATMs, no online banking, no email communications.
Always have a little cash stashed back in case of just such an event. I keep a couple of Franklin notes tucked away in my wallet at all times.
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...
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...