Cyber Terrorist Attack

A posting on a "jihadist website" claims that there will be several cyber attacks on US financial institutions including the stock market, banks and investment firms. They claim that they will delete mass amounts of data, potentially ruining financial companies and investors. Every threat must be taken seriously; even if these "terrorists" don't have the working knowledge to hack into large servers, it is verry possible that they have the money to hire someone who DOES know how to break into comptuers. This threat exemplifies the dystopian view of networked techonlogy and computer systems that work to store and automate financial data. The only steps that can be taken are the hiring of people to constantly test and protect the network from hackers and thieves. They must work hard to keep the edge on their "opponients." However, it must be realized that before the birth of this relatively new technology, all the data was kept in paper form large file cabinets. Just as computers can be hacked, paper can be burt or shred. A terrorst could potentially achieve the same goal in the past as he can now, so no new threat really arises from this networked technology, just a threat of a completely different nature.
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