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Panetta: U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies are seeing an increase in cyber threats that could become as devastating as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks if they aren't stopped.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-12/cyberattacks-could-become-as-destructive-as-9-11-panetta.html



Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?

Cyber Attack Could Take Down Your Liberties and the Constitution

By Karen J. Greenberg

You better wonder what the future holds for erstwhile American civil liberties, privacy, and constitutional protections.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32824.htm



Is the DOD crazy enough to bring nukes to a cyberfight?

The problem is that some in the Pentagon are threatening ''deterrence'' via kinetic reprisals, including nuclear counterattacks in the most extreme cases, that could actually encourage the very cyberattacks the government hopes to prevent.

http://is.gd/QF0gGT


From Information Clearing House



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