[pchelpers] News:Spies Worry Hackers Could Fuel Financial Panic

By Noah Shachtman October 17, 2008

We all laughed and pointed our fingers at Chuck Norris, when he floated
the idea earlier this week that the current crisis on Wall Street is the
result of "economic terrorism." Some of the nation's counterintelligence
officials aren't smiling, however. 

No, they don't believe Chuck's thesis about some mysterious
"manipulation of the marketplace" that's causing us all to lose our life
savings. But some spooks are concerned that hackers could send
already-frazzled "stock markets into one more panicked frenzy, by
covertly manipulating data and spreading false information," Shane
Harris reports in the latest edition of National Journal. 

more here:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/spies-worry-hac.html
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