Die Hard 4 means its not a huge huge threat?
When talking about the threat of cyber terrorism, I think that of course it can be potentially dangerous but the odds of someone actually executing something with our nations heightened state of awareness is going to be extremely difficult. I saw this now after watching Live Free or Die Hard. The plot of the movie is that a group of terrorist do what is called a fire sale. This means they use an all out cyber attack to shut down the nation's digital infrastructure. The stock market crashes, traffic lights fail, etc... By the end of the movie John McClane and company defeat the bad guys and the world is put back into normal working order. If this is this the plot of a mainstream Hollywood movie then I think that cyberterrorism is an old threat. The country has gone so far to understand that it is incorporating it in pop culture. It is no longer scary or unexplainable. If Hollywood writers can come up with a way to foil their plan then surely, the United States government can.
However when older people began throwing around buzz words and cyber terrorism was formed, PBS's Frontline ran a documentary about hackers and how quickly they could disable a power plant. This was aired shortly after the New York power outages a few years ago. A government "hacker" said that within a week he could have the whole power grid shut off. A unidentified "hacker" said that within 20 minutes he could have the grid shut down. This was a very scary thought but that was a few years ago. There's always going to be risks or threats with anything but if we let that inhibit our use of it then the terrorists have already won!
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Nice blog . . . Die Hard 1 and 2 were definately the best tho. I do agree that the Government has security tatics installed to stop cyber crime and what not, but then on the other hand, I figured they would have stuff to prevent 9-11. So who knows what can happen.
Nice blog . . . Die Hard 1 and 2 were definately the best tho. I do agree that the Government has security tatics installed to stop cyber crime and what not, but then on the other hand, I figured they would have stuff to prevent 9-11. So who knows what can happen.
Nice blog . . . Die Hard 1 and 2 were definately the best tho. I do agree that the Government has security tatics installed to stop cyber crime and what not, but then on the other hand, I figured they would have stuff to prevent 9-11. So who knows what can happen.
Nice blog . . . Die Hard 1 and 2 were definately the best tho. I do agree that the Government has security tatics installed to stop cyber crime and what not, but then on the other hand, I figured they would have stuff to prevent 9-11. So who knows what can happen.
That was really a great movie and addressed a real problem. I really think that this is something that we are going to have to look out for in the future. Just like Executive Decision predicted terrorist hijacking planes and using them as a weapon, I think this movie is predicting something in the future. I really hope we can spot it before it happens.