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SOURCE [..]SAN FRANCISCO - -The federal government has launched a cyber security "Manhattan Project," U.S. homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday, because online attacks can be a form of "devastating warfare", and equivalent in damage to "physical destruction of the worst kind." Speaking to hundreds of security professionals at the RSA security conference, Chertoff cited last year's denial-of-service attacks against Estonia, and hypothetical hack attacks on financial networks and air traffic control systems, as proof that a federal strategy was needed. "Imagine, if you will, a sophisticated attack on our financial systems that caused them to be paralyzed," Chertoff said. "It would shake the foundation of trust on which our financial system works." [...]
Chertoff , the dude on the picture above , close to a Bush wondering : "He looks like an arab , doesn't he ? " , is the same dude that like an oracle declared on July 11, 2007 : SOURCE "I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk," he said. "Summertime seems to be appealing to them." Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, citing a "gut feeling" on Tuesday, told the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune that al-Qaeda could attack the United States this summer (2007). Chertoff based his assessment on a personal hunch, admitting that there was not enough evidence of a pending attack to raise the nation's threat level. Rather, Chertoff had studied terrorist patterns and some undisclosed intel to come up with his determination. We think that KertOff studied only watching movies like 007 James Bond Collection ------------------------------------------- >The Pentagon Spokesman Bryan Whitman speaks of the CyberWar on page 2 .
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