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by flyinRyan 4932 days ago
>"The study warns of the risk that terrorists could..."

Will this ever go away? Have terrorists ever pulled off a meaningful cyber attack? Why didn't the study mention the risk of those aliens from "Mars attacks" flying in and vaporizing important COLO sites?

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I upvoted this comment because I agree that threats of cyberwarfare are mostly fear mongering, but Estonia was attacked in 2007. Whether or not the attackers were "terrorists" is another issue.

[1] http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_est...