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leon panetta is warning of a cyber pearl harbor and he says that
potentially a a big hack attack could have been capability to paralyze the
country
right now so he warned a senate panel
that america faces the potential for another pearl harbor and he made the
remarks from lindsey graham was questioning him let this go to the audio
and video lewis in here exactly what and i was talking about
he said something det
just can't win over by said i think that there's a pearl harbor in the making
here
you're talking about sending down financial systems
releasing chemicals from chemical plants releasing water from dams
shutting down power systems then right at the very some problem in nature have
of the nation
what's the likelihood
in the next five years
that one of these major vance
all i can tell you
isn't high probability or i will tell you is that
technologically the capability
to paralyze this country his beard is they're growing we'll
t use that capability parents
i think uh...
the more this technology developed so the more the will to potentially use it
is convicted would you say there's a high probability
capability uh... i think you know i risk
putting aside the fact that leon panetta doesn't strike me as a guy who knows
that much about the internet but let's put that aside just and that's strictly
aviary prejudiced
thing based on his appearance only let let's put that aside
if you'd like
it's interesting what he's right if he can keep it makes sense what he's saying
but it's interesting that several years ago i interviewed richardclark remember
the author of that infamous nine eleven memo to connally's arise that was
basically ignored right
and here actually wrote a book about the the threat of a terrorist of
packing incident that could shut down
the electrical grid the internet communications financial services
we've actually been hearing this for a long time even though rationally nervous
can say
that it's not a possibility
we've been hearing about it for so many years now and it hasn't happened now
does that mean we should start ignoring it now but any everytime i hear the
frantic
warnings like we're hearing from leon panetta
i at least question
really worries getting this information about whether he feels like a neat cover
himself by saying
well i think he's right but think about our
are most dangerous uh... enemies at the moment right who are they and are they
using computers
there they do not have the the know-how or the technology to do what key
he's claiming might happen well i think you're talking about the ones that are
stereotypically our biggest enemy brightness on i mean i think that
there's a point here which is that maybe the bigger and he's
are the ones that we are as aware of in the media but actually do have the
capability that to do some kind of a big-time cyber attack
you're talking about here
yeah i mean that i think the uh... worry here would also be domestic terrorist
uh... who can actually who have no legal issues in this country they can actually
physically infiltrate certain of factors
and then from there launch an attack with the uh... you know internal hal and
i think that's also a bit worried nuclear power plants telecommunications
industries financial sector if that's a usually the domestic terrorists are are
acting alone or in very small groups
i mean i think it's when you have
well let's say an entire government uh... uh...
of another country working to do something like this that we released at
the start worrying you know the other interesting thing about this he talks
about fiber pearl harbor but why did he say of cyber nine eleven right because
this will be he would not have a terrorist attack
but for some reason he chose to save pearl harbor which is not considered a
terrorist attack it's a wartime attack it was part of world war two will be
opening up a new front in world war two that maybe the u_s_ wasn't anticipating
but its strange not to be using the term cyber nine eleven
far more recent but also for more relevant because we are talking about
terrorism do you think maybe the term nine eleven is off limits all together
to this administration
i'm un trying to figure out why use trying to
to save it
what what will be
would what this will spark
perhaps uh...
more reminiscent of what perot harper sparked
uh... ok maybe delight might have but the other thing is that again like you
said his age is a factor here in the apt
when when people think about
situations like this if you're his age he might
just be more quiet the developer arbor you know it's it was fifty is prior