USA unprepared for cyberattack :

[JamesBond007]

The U.S. should take a bunch of steps today to prevent a major cyberattack that could wreak wide-scale devastation on the U.S., a year-long study mandated by U.S. Congress reported Wednesday. From a report:

"A major cyberattack on the nation's critical infrastructure and economic system would create chaos and lasting damage exceeding that wreaked by fires in California, floods in the Midwest, and hurricanes in the Southeast," the report predicts. What they're saying: "This is like doing the 9/11 Commission before 9/11 happens. We want to avoid that situation," Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), a co-chair of the panel, said at an Axios event Monday. At the same event, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), the other co-chair, said the U.S. does not currently have an effective deterrence policy in place to discourage hostile cyberattacks. "We are getting killed by a thousand cuts," he said.

China and Russia would be the likely suspects but it is also possible from South America if something like this did occur. A Country, America, that spent 50 years outsourcing everything it makes, defunding public education at all levels, turning their colleges into luxury debt traps, and pushing an intellectual property agenda that punishes hackers and rewards closed source DRM suddenly finds itself unprepared for a world where intimate knowledge of the internet and its ecosystem of protocols is a priority. As an American, color me shocked. Perhaps theres an H1B or two we should hire? That is a rhetorical question.


https://www.axios.com/cybersecurity-...126d03477.html

[Wegner]

USA unprepared for normal wear and tear on it's infrastructure!

[Oneeye]

You went from fitness buff to suave dandy to old man in a flannel really quick.