If we've learned anything from Hollywood it's that
cybersecurity is a growing national concern. And there are a couple approaches the country could take to tackle the problem. The first, which we wholeheartedly endorse, involves relying on tough guys with bad attitudes, short fuses, and a propensity for tattered clothing (at least once the bombs start dropping). The other -- endorsed by Washington think tanks with names like the Bipartisan Policy Center -- would be actual preparation and policy-making. To this end, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in DC hosted Cyber ShockWave, which only sounds like an awesome energy drink -- in fact, it was a simulated, 12-hour cyber attack held yesterday. In the words of the
Wall Street Journal, organizers intended "to show how the U.S. government would respond to [attacks] against its networks and infrastructure." According to a 367-page November report by the US-China Economic Security Review Commission, the DoD has had to deal with some 54,640 total cyber attacks in 2008 -- with the number of attacks increasing to 43,785 in the first half of 2009 alone. That's a lot of attacks! On second thought, maybe the whole "preparation" and "training" thing
does sound like a good idea. So long as we keep John McClane around -- just in case.
posted February 18th 2010 6:28AM
Damn hackers with their Commodore PET's
@camroncake They're especially deadly when they're running WinMo
@camroncake
Budget cuts, man, budget cuts. We are in a recession, you know.
@camroncake
Don't worry. My Amiga 500 will save us all.
LOL that movie was wrong in just so many ways
@thanatos465
whatttt that movie was nothing but pure action goodness. they don't make'em (action movies) like that anymore.
@thanatos465 Yeah, they do still make them like that. Die Hard 4 is still new enough to be recent :p
"yippie kay yay mother ****ers"
HOLY CRAP!
Is that a Commodore PET on the pic!?!?!
Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs...
"Yippee kai yay, motherfucker" :)))
@aeonys
It was kind of funny when the guy a couple of posts above you did it. Kind of.
edit: Mother #####
lol at the Commodore
@Asuka - OOOPPS sorry!
@aeonys
You can make your amends to the board in the form of non-negotiable bearer bonds.
Obvious choice of hardware really. No way are those Chinese Government-sponsored viruses going to be able to compromise the Pentagon's PET network ! The Venezuelans will never be able to read the contents of any audio tapes the Generals leave in taxis. And in times of national emergency, that "POKE 49868, 2" will double the processor clock !
8K PETs rock ! (sic)
Boss: Jimmy!! Did you plug that network cable in to the internets again?
Jimmy: Yeah boss, my bad I wanted to watch some youtube on my Nuclear power plant console..
Boss: Aight, let's see what's on.
Jimmy: Yes boss..
It's a fire sale. Everything must go. Water, power, phones, everything.