Intel Chief: U.S. at Risk of Crippling Cyber Attack

FOXNews.com

The United States is at risk of a crippling cyber attack that could "wreak havoc" on the country because the "technological balance" makes it much easier to launch a cyber strike than defend against it, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Tuesday. See article for details:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/03/intel-chief-risk-crippling-cyber-attack/

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I had a professor in the Homeland Security program at the Bush School at Texas A&M that did a paper titled "The End of Commerce". It was a chilling account of what would happen if our telecommunications/critical infrastructure was compromised, and it's impact on the global economy. We have been asleep at the switch, unfortunately I don't think the current administration can address the problem.

The private sector owns 85% of the critical infrastructure and its IT management of security is fractured at best. Here's one question I asked several years ago and still don't have an answer. Who is responsible for reconstituting the internet? Really, who?