Why The US Will Lose a Cyber War 244
An anonymous reader writes "There's not another nation in the world that can wage kinetic warfare as effectively as the United States, and that's probably at the heart of the reason why the United States will lose a war fought in cyberspace, leading cyber security analyst Jeffrey Carr writes."
we already had a cyber attack. remember Enron? (Score:4, Informative)
they shut down the power grids, by twiddling some bits in a computer, and laughing about grannies who would be without power.
of course they got away with it, because they were well connected politically and ideologically to the 'free market uber alles' people.
you could also argue the financial crisis of 2008 was a cyber attack on the part of the bankers, hedge fund managers, ratings agencies, insurance companies, and government regulators who all colluded to create massive fraud of the Synthetic CDO "industry", which wiped out vast mountains of money ... all using little numbers in computers, swishing things to the Cayman Islands and so forth.