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Web Extra: Hacking the D.O.D.

November 8, 2009 5:00 PM

Jim Lewis is a former State Department official who directed a major study on cyber security for President Obama.

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by arenaud333 November 9, 2009 12:20 AM EST
this piece of reportage, one that has been begging to be written & filed for years & years... maybe two decades even, exposes with a glaring light, more than any other before it , for all the world to see & to ear, the sheer auto-gloryfying HUBRIS, self-contented arrogance & criminal stupidity of the "geniuses" (the guys that like to call themselves experts in such and such field: the so-called "engineers", "computer scientists" or "cybernetic systems architects" [as if there were such a thing as a "science" of computers; one term contradicting the exact other
in that trivial binomial association] and so on..., who thought it a good idea (for instance) to connect the global electrical powergrid of the most powerful nation the world has ever seen to THE very same single internet (interconnected network, or network of networks) that the commoner utilises every day. i mean, it's like the emperor has no clothes, but no one takes notice? is there someone out there, other than me, who has enough common sense (or simply the benefit of casual detachment from the matter at hand) to figure out that it's just something that, well... how shall i put it: YOU JUST DON'T DO...
because {`a sa face m^eme] it's an ABSURDLY IDIOTIC IDEA, one that even a kindergardener is smart enough to characterize as such - or, at least, "i" was (i guess that what an I.Q. of 228 at age five afforded someone like me). next thing you know, what?:
next week's "60 minutes" headline story will be about how the founding
fathers [ecrit en italique], way back when, didn't give it a second thought and hooked up the strategic deterrence infrastructure - the ballistic, nuclear-warhead armed missiles in their silos on "the little prairie" or aboard ocean-roaming submersible warships - to the "world wide web" (the basic internet, or the commonly invoked "'net"), the very same one that you & i use to communicate with one another; but which we could just as well make use of to enter & log the launch codes to... what not, ARMAGGEDON at the end of times and the end of life as we knew it?
you've got to make yourself laugh at it, because there's every chance that IT IS EXACTLY what "they" did (if i were a gambler, i'd even likely bet my life's savings on it)...
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by mgaro November 8, 2009 10:18 PM EST
This was very disturbing First it is very scary that this is happening. Second it is very disturbing that nothing is being done . Thirdly you show how it is done so more people can do it. Then you tell us the microchips are made overseas and the parts to power generators are also made overseas,so one the microchips can be altered and the generator parts might take months to get if someone hacks into and destroys the generators. Maybe we should bring back those jobs to the United States find away to prevent this hacking and quit showing the world how they can destroy us martin garozzo
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