Cyberwar - U.S. Weighs Risks of Civilian Harm in Cyberwarfare - Series - NYTimes.com

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/us/politics/02cyber.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

It would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in  
history. In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made  
plans for a cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in the bank  
accounts of Saddam Hussein and cripple his government’s financial  
system before the United States invaded Iraq. He would have no money  
for war supplies. No money to pay troops.

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“We knew we could pull it off — we had the tools,” said one senior  
official who worked at the Pentagon when the highly classified plan  
was developed.

But the attack never got the green light. Bush administration  
officials worried that the effects would not be limited to Iraq but  
instead create worldwide financial havoc, spreading across the Middle  
East to Europe and perhaps to the United States.

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