NSA: 'Traumatic' cyber attack coming

[IDemo]

Video at link:

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/12/12/nr-dnt-feyerick-cyber-security.cnn.html

[tecelote]

1. I'm afraid! Very afraid.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. It's coming

if they have to torture people to make them do it or simply do it themselves and torture anyone who rats them out.

[2naSalit]

3. Ding Ding Ding!!!

Precisely!

[LawDeeDah]

8. or maybe some fat fingered rube in a dank basement was hired

for mischief just so you would say that.

[grasswire]

4. here's that false flag operation that we were predicting earlier today on DU. nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. It's hard to imagine anyone on DU seeing the headline and NOT thinking false flag.

I've worked in IT forever, and these days, when I think about data security, the "bad guy" in my mind's eye is always our own government. Sure, there are other bad guys, but our own federal government is the biggest and the baddest of them all.

[IDemo]

9. I considered adding a line or two to that effect in the OP

But thought it would be pretty much self evident to DU'ers.

[LordGlenconner]

7. False Flag

Alex Jones called. He wants his terminology back.

[Jesus Malverde]

6. McCains latest screed was we need to invest in "Cyber"

McCain ready to tackle cyber threats

Sen. John McCain is 78 years old. But that doesn’t mean cyberspace escapes him.

The Arizona Republican and incoming Senate Armed Services Committee chairman says in all his years in Washington — 31 total — the cyber issue holds a special distinction. McCain told a forum here Wednesday that of all the meetings he has attended on a long list of issues, none has less action happened afterwards than on threats emanating from cyberspace.

That’s why, when asked by a conference moderator about his top agenda items for his coming SASC chairmanship, cyber ranks among the top three.

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20141203/CONGRESSWATCH/312030041/McCain-Ready-Tackle-Cyber-Threats-Cost-Plus-Contracts-SASC-Chairman

Also part of the NSA's efforts to polish it's image after being shown to be creepier that the communist stasi.

[KamaAina]

10. Cyberterra! Cyberterra! Cyberterra!