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Girma Nigusse

Bad new world: Cyber risk and the future of the United States

September 27, 2011

"CIO - In September 2007, in a remote laboratory in Idaho, researchers working on a project dubbed "Aurora" demonstrated the ability of a cyber hacker to destroy physical equipment -- in this case a generator used to create electricity for the power grid. The Aurora research brought the question of physical safety and the ability for a nation to defend itself from attack in the cyber world to the forefront. For the next three years, this difficult discussion would largely remain just a discussion, contemplated, if passionately, in corners of Washington and at wonk-ish meetings across the U.S."

Read more: ComputerWorld

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