Politically Motivated Cyber Attacks

Orome1 writes "According to a new report, 53 percent of critical infrastructure providers report that their networks have experienced what they perceived as politically motivated cyber attacks. Participants of the Symantec survey claimed to have experienced such an attack on an average of 10 times in the past five years, incurring an average cost of $850,000 during a period of five years to their businesses. Participants from the energy industry reported that they were best prepared for such an attack, while participants from the communications industry reported that they were the least prepared."

Re:No conflict of interest at all

[postbigbang]

There's a difference between observation, criticism, and DDoS. Concerted efforts to stifle information-- no matter what the information is-- are onerous attacks on everyone who wants the same right to voice their own.

Re:Terrorism is a result of failed democracy

[AnonymousClown]

Real democracy will only come when we apply the principles of free software [metagovernment.org] to government.

You don't live somewhere with a Home Owners Association, do you? Getting people to participate is nearly impossible even when it results in there being a lot of money levied on them. People would rather do other things. They hardly get out to vote.

And you actually think something like Metagovernment will work?!? Talk about a pipe dream!

Predicted Future news:

[Even on Slashdot FOE]

Politically motivated cyber attack reports are spun into support for new laws bringing the US up to speed with the most draconian technology laws in the world - provide your password or go to jail forever, prove that the drawing is of an adult, and even prove that you have never interacted with anyone who has committed these cyber-crimes or go to jail by association!

Re:Oh yeah?

[operagost]

This is really OT; but while negative ads seem to stick in our heads, the other half are ads touting the candidate's record in a few key areas and one or two of their strategies. Maybe you're not in the USA, but here we get both.

Politicians have no real power.

[elucido]

Politicians have the illusion of power by signature. The real power are the intelligence agencies that bribe and blackmail politicians into doing their bidding. The real power are the corporations funding the lobbyists who do the bribery, or in some cases the journalists and private investigators who do the blackmail, so lets face it every politician basically reads their script and is like a celebrity.

They go on TV and read a teleprompter. They sign what they are told to sign. Their controllers write their bills, the politicians don't read anything and just sign off on whatever their controllers make them sign off too. Since the average American citizen isn't in control of anything, the foreign national has more control over the political process than the average American citizen, whether it be hacking the voting machine or bribing the politician.

At least if there are cyber warriors the voting machines wont have to be hacked.

Re:Terrorism is a result of failed democracy

[SuricouRaven]

Terrorism happens whenever people no longer trust the political process... to give the result they want. If a person presses position X, but sees that not-X is more popular and thus X has no hope of becoming law, then they may see violence as justified. For examples see environmental terrorism on the left, or pro-life terrorism on the right.