Cybersecurity is something that occasionally hits the news. We tend to think it's a geeky teenager stealing a credit card account on-line or hacking a bank account, but it's a much larger than that. Bill Whittle on PJTV hosts an enlightening panel discussion on how the national security of the United States is at stake and nobody is doing anything about it. The first part I was aware of but I had always assumed that in the black part of government a CTU or similar agency was hard at work countering China and Russia's massive penetration of U.S. governmental and private secrets. Apparently not true.
Consider the U.S. selling advanced weapons to Taiwan, which just happened, and the Chinese shutting down the Bonneville power grid intermittently over the course of a week. The Federal Reserve Bank for the West in in San Francisco, not to mention Boeing, Microsoft, other huge financial institutions pretty much quit functioning. Bank accounts can't be accessed, the internet is gone, other critical services are intermittent at best. Our government wouldn't admit it because it would show its impotence in the face of such an attack. The Chinese wouldn't say anything - they wouldn't need to. In the meantime the rest of us would have our lives utterly disrupted and it could take months to put things back together. And this would be just a mild taste of what could be done.
We have always tended to prepare to fight the last war. Maybe we should get serious this time about anticipating the next one.
www.pjtv.com/video/National_Security_Review_With_Bill_Whittle/Wake-Up_Crash%3A_Why_A_Cyber_Pearl_Harbor_Might_Help_Us_Before_It%E2%80%99s_Too_Late_/3158/
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