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Story: CIA: Cyberattack caused multi-city blackout

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I've been reading some of the comments that date back to 2005 regarding the cybercrime debate and whether it is a myth, a severely critical issue that we should be concerned about or whether cybersecurity is just so tght we need not fear anyway.
Now this, is quite plainly a form of cyberterrorism, demands for cash and so forth., besides if the CIA are able, and we must assume they are to accurately pinpoint a glitch in a system from an attack (unknown source) then of course we should be concerned, Should an organisation or indvidual consider it necessary to black out a city for cash however I do not feel that they represent a form of terrorism that should concern us. Most of all, a form that would not need or desire cash-for-terror but whose motivation stems from ther sources would consider destructon on a vast scale well within their remit, then we should be concerned, a city black out; no lights and so forth is bad but if such a group (or individual) is capable of bypassing a states cyberstructure to such an extent, as a display of power, where do the implications lead? cyberstructure of electricity grids is much like any other network of cybergrid......................

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