[funsec] US 'unprepared for cyber 9/11'

[John Payne]

On Dec 22, 2008, at 2:04 AM, der Mouse wrote:

>> 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

...   and not to mention the fires that crop up when power is  
restored...