Re: US 'unprepared for cyber 9/11'

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> You'll pardon me if I see a slight difference of magnitude between
> sending a plane full of a hundred or so innocent people careening
> into an office building of many thousands at 500 miles per hour as
> slightly more important than cooking a transformer.

And when downing the transformer - or, more likely, transformer*s* -
takes out power to a couple of middling-large cities for several weeks
in the dead of winter?  Say, several million people, of which a few
percent, at least, are marginal enough to be killed outright by it, and
a substantially larger fraction likely to die of assorted
complications, from domestic friction to injuries suffered trying to
deal.  Consider what the ice storm a decade or so ago did to
northeastern North America, and that didn't have malicious intelligence
guiding it, or taking out the power feeds that did survive.

You're right.  There is a substantial difference of magnitude.  It goes
the other way, though.

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