It's cyberwar galore on PBS tonight – in my area
code, anyhow.
They interviewed Richard Clarke about the subject, a natural
thing since he was the current Administration's
top guy on cyberspace security. This is part
of what he said:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/interviews/clarke.html
It could be that, in the future, people will look back on the American empire, the economic empire and the military empire, and say, "They didn't realize that they were building their whole empire on a fragile base. They had changed that base from brick and mortar to bits and bytes, and they never fortified it. Therefore, some enemy some day was able to come around and knock the whole empire over." That's the fear.
Alarming enough – but in those days, Clarke was
still the team player. I wonder what on earth he'd
say NOW.
Check out this Flash animation of the Slammer worm.
Yike.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/warnings/slammermap.html
