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  Forbes article pointing out Cybersecurity issues:

http://www.forbes.com/global/2004/0920/104.html


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The most destructive terrorist act in history began with Islamic radicals 
going to flight school and ended when they turned airliners into flying 
bombs. As the third anniversary of Sept. 11 passes, the next threat could 
be aNet threat:Solid evidence shows that al Qaeda agents and other 
terrorists are trying to attain the online skills needed to wage cyberwar. 
Terrorists could use the Internet to disrupt the communications systems of 
the military's Pacific Command or turn off the lights in Los Angeles or 
Chicago; they could open the massive floodgates of Arizona's Roosevelt Dam 
or disable huge parts of the World Wide Web.

  Yet in the U.S. and elsewhere no urgent crusade has emerged to fix the 
flaws. The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, signed last year by 
President Bush, proposes a sweeping overhaul of U.S. networks. In it the 
White House's former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, urged a 
wholesale reboot of government computer systems and new security rules for 
electric utilities and Internet access providers. But few of his proposals 
have been adopted, Clarke says. "All the regulated industries--the electric 
utilities, the gas pipelines and oil refineries, the water and 
transportation systems--are still vulnerable to cyberattack."
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