On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Fred Holmes <f...@his.com> wrote: > Isn't that just handing victory to the attacker? Isn't the attacker trying > to limit Internet access so that commerce and banking shut down? I can't do > my banking because my Internet access is denied during an emergency. > Retailers lose all their business because their potential customers can't > read the advertising?
I am most certainly not advocating anything such as limiting internet expansion or the ability to access it. There could be calls from some quarters to limit access to the system if it were to come under attack and if that attack would be aided by the internet remaining wide open. Who knows what kind of cyber attack could be launched, what it would entail or how it would be implemented? Hey, just yesterday I was informed by the credit card fraud squad that my card had been compromised and that a bunch of stuff related to accessories for BMW automobiles had been purchased with my card number. That could only have happened through my use of that card on the internet as that was the one and only manner in which I had ever used that particular card. Likely some hack into the files of an on-line retailer. I had not used that card in over six months and it was all paid off as well. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
