Anonymous takes down internet security firm

[civ_king]

A properly executed cyber attack can literaly destroy our entire economy due to how much is done electronicaly. (Isn't most of the world's currency in e-currency?)

Who cares about electronically? Why not just destroy the power grid?

 

[Ajidica]

Who cares about electronically? Why not just destroy the power grid?

I dunno. All I know about cyberattacks is some early 80's cyberpunk books and what I have picked up from the New York Times. Not a great background.

 

[warpus]

All you really need to know you can get from watching War Games

 

[Cutlass]

Who cares about electronically? Why not just destroy the power grid?

That wouldn't do as much damage as destroying the banks. It would be easier to fix.

 

[Virote_Considon]

What I like about Anonymous is how they only go after douchenozzles like Hal Turner, the Egyptian Government, and this guy.

And eleven year old girls, too.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

A properly executed cyber attack can literaly destroy our entire economy due to how much is done electronicaly. (Isn't most of the world's currency in e-currency?)

Yeah but then the hackers won't be able to buy porn.

 

[Ajidica]

No matter. That is why you download the content of the Internets.

 

[Dachs]

And eleven year old girls, too.

See, that's what I thought this thread was about from the title.

 

[DJNotNice]

And eleven year old girls, too.

She had it coming.

 

[Earthling]

That wouldn't do as much damage as destroying the banks. It would be easier to fix.

Not really, and especially not on any reasonable level of "destroying the banks" that you assume is possible. Too many backups and paper records exist, there'd be inconvenience and lots of money lost but not as much as physical damage to the power grid on a coordinated scale would be a massive terror attack. (if you were thinking some sort of remote/purely electronic hacking of the power grid though then you could well be right)

 

[Cutlass]

That really depends on what could be done to the power grid. I don't really know what could be done by programming that would do physical damage to the equipment.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Yeah but then the hackers won't be able to buy porn.

Buy...Porn?

 

[civ_king]

That wouldn't do as much damage as destroying the banks. It would be easier to fix.

I'm talking about Nation v. Nation, successfully destroying banks would destroy the entire financial sector

That really depends on what could be done to the power grid. I don't really know what could be done by programming that would do physical damage to the equipment.

You can destroy the generators themselves (which take six weeks to make apiece), you could make the generators turn on at a lower RPM than supposed which would cause energy to surge into the slower generators thus destroying them causing a ripple effect throughout the plant which would cause a ripple across the grid... I think denying power to the populous areas of the country for months (there are only so many generator manufacturing plants) would cause massive devastation.

 

[Ajidica]

Methinks you have watched too much hollywood.

 

[Whomp]

You can destroy the generators themselves (which take six weeks to make apiece), you could make the generators turn on at a lower RPM than supposed which would cause energy to surge into the slower generators thus destroying them causing a ripple effect throughout the plant which would cause a ripple across the grid... I think denying power to the populous areas of the country for months (there are only so many generator manufacturing plants) would cause massive devastation.

I just read some research from Lloyd's on space weather and it said replacement transformers could take 12-16 months to replace. There's only a few hundred built annually and they're made by a limited number of suppliers. There's huge demand in China, India, Latin America and the Middle East so the line would just get longer.

 

[Yui108]

She had it coming.

Jessie Slaughter?

 

[civ_king]

Methinks you have watched too much hollywood.

No, I've been listening to a man who was director of the NSA and the CIA and people who have been advisors to presidents

I just read some research from Lloyd's on space weather and it said replacement transformers could take 12-16 months to replace. There's only a few hundred built annually and they're made by a limited number of suppliers. There's huge demand in China, India, Latin America and the Middle East so the line would just get longer.

I was only citing how long they took to make. That would be a massive waiting list!

 

[Whomp]

Moderator Action: Let's bring this back discussion back on topic. I've changed the title of the OP to reflect what the discussion is about.

 

[civ_king]

Since Anonymous has taken down a internet security firm successfully I think this serves to encourage Anonymous and other people. Additionally with terrorism on the rise by Anonymous and other group this could be used as a mask for nation on nation war

 

[classical_hero]

I actually preferred the previous title.