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To: Snowshoe who wrote (10101)	6/26/2002 11:39:48 PM
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Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda Feared Terrorists at Threshold of Using Internet as Tool of Bloodshed, Experts Say washingtonpost.com To destroy a dam physically would require "tons of explosives," Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff said a year ago. To breach it from cyberspace is not out of the question. In 1998, a 12-year-old hacker, exploring on a lark, broke into the computer system that runs Arizona's Roosevelt Dam. He did not know or care, but federal authorities said he had complete command of the SCADA system controlling the dam's massive floodgates. Roosevelt Dam holds back as much as 1.5 million acre-feet of water, or 489 trillion gallons. That volume could theoretically cover the city of Phoenix, down river, to a height of five feet. In practice, that could not happen. Before the water reached the Arizona capital, the rampant Salt River would spend most of itself in a flood plain encompassing the cities of Mesa and Tempe - with a combined population of nearly a million. I think the terrorism threat seriously calls into question the whole idea of embedded, internet-connected devices. Why hook your factory up to the web, if it lets terrorists in to cause mischief? -Snowshoe

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