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The thought of a cyberwar is still science fiction to most Americans. They believe that kind of stuff only exists in movies. But there is a real threat of real cyberwars in the future. Here is a good article about cyberwarfare for you to ponder; (The Title could be a book or a movie)

When Bots Attack
By John Robb of Wired Magazine

If you want to bring down a country’s information infrastructure and you don’t want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack. Using rented botnets, you can launch hundreds of thousands — even millions — of infobombs at a target, all while maintaining total deniability. In this hypothetical scenario, a single attack launched by China against the US lasts only a few hours, but a full-scale assault lasting days or weeks could bring an entire modern information economy to its knees.

I know. It sounds like the plot to a movie as I said before, but this is real. Cyberwar is a real possibility we are not prepared for.

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