Postamos anteriormente uma notícia sobre a ciber-guerra. Vejam no Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: o depoimento de Robert Gates, ex-diretor da CIA sobre o assunto:
Robert Gates: ‘cyberterrorism’ is worst WMD out there?
Kevin Poulsen at Wired News’ 27bStroke6 blog writes:
The president’s choice for new defense secretary believes in ‘cyberterrorism.’ From this 2004 AP article:
Cyberterrorism could be the most devastating weapon of mass destruction yet and could cripple the U.S. economy, former CIA Director Robert Gates said at a terrorism conference Saturday.
We interrupt this block quote to say: please!, let that be hyperbole by the AP, and not an accurate reflection of what’s in our next defense secretary’s head. Continuing …
Gates, who became Texas A&M University’s president in 2002 about a decade after he left the CIA, cited as an example the ‘love bug’ virus that overwhelmed computer systems around the world in 2000.
‘When a teenage hacker in the Philippines overnight can wreak $10 billion in damage to the U.S. economy by implanting a virus, imagine what a sophisticated, well-funded effort to attack the computer base of our economy could accomplish,’ said Gates, addressing the two-day conference at Rice University.”