Earlier this week, the nation's chief spy screeched about of the danger of cyber attacks -- and the need to monitor what everyone does online, in response. Now, the CIA has made an usually public warning about the perils that network strikes can pose. Hackers have tried to extort money from overseas utility companies. At least in one case, the Washington Post reports, the online attackers messed with an electrical grid, disrupting ing power in several cities.
full storyif you don't think they are already monitoring, your a fool. This is just another example of the gov't propaganda and fear mongering. I aint saying the hackers couldn't shut down the power grid or something worse. I am saying there are better ways to stop them than the gov't monitoring what we do on the internet. We got to quit being nice about it. If you start reformatting harddrives, no matter who they belong to, you would start to get rid of some of these zombie bots that prey on the internet. Yes, granny's hdd might get reformatted, but she has had ample time to fix the problem.
How was the West tamed? Bad ass motherfuckers started shooting people and everything fell into place after that. That's what I am proposing here. The internet equivilent of shooting first and asking questions later.
If your computer is infected with something or is a zombie and you still allow it a connection to the internet, no matter if you are aware or not, you deserve what you get. Here's an idea. Why don't you pull your head out of your ass and learn something about the computer you use everyday. And if you can't? Tough shit. Don't use the computer.
