Kaminsky may be the event (Score 1)

The Kaminsky DNS protocol issue may be the best candidate so far for the "Cyber 9/11."

IF it is as serious as the hype makes it sound (probable),

AND if it is widely exploited, causing major disruptions to Internet commerce (too soon to tell),

AND if the IETF, other standards bodies, and DNS implementers are unable to respond with effective mitigations in the protocol (seems likely given their current bickering over DNSSEC),

THEN we can expect to see some sort of major initiative to "secure the web" and impose technical solutions by legislation. Then the U.S. will go one way, the Chinese another, and the rest of the Internet will fragment into balkanized confusion.

Or the whole thing could just go away, like Y2K, and we will all wait for the next bullet.