Blitz of "Cyber Attacks," Leading Up to Cybersecurity Act of 2009

His thread was shut-down because he started it hours after my original thread began.

A moderator made the decision.

I asked why my thread wasn't on the front page hot list, since his thread already was, even though it had been shut-down for close to 3 hours at that point.

I'm not sure if this was mentioned yet, but I just saw that imageshack has been hacked by a group that interestingly enough appears to be against full disclosure concerning computer security and reform the industry.
mashable.com...

This is the image and message they have managed to redirect all images to




[edit on 10-7-2009 by warpboost]

What i see is a government on/off switch to isolate the US from the rest of the world in case of a mass cyber attack.

It is my understanding that Estonia is in the process of doing just that after Russian hackers did a cyber attack against them a few years ago.



Yeah its worked real good for Iran and China.
The Internet users in the rest of have helped to almost completely bypassed there censorship through proxies and other means.

The only thing China and Iran could do would be to shut down there Internet.
but that would stop there ability to use the Internet for spying /cyber attacks/ECT as they would not have the cover if there own population of Internet users/hacker to blame for any outside attacks.
If there Internet connection to the rest of the world was for the government only all other governments would know who was doing any attacks.