On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > James B. Byrne wrote: > > > > On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote: > >> > >> Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts. > > > > Better fight with bits than blood. > > Yes, but... attacks on the friggin' IoT could result in lots of blood. Or, > less so, what do you mean all the rail lines have been knocked out of > commission for a week, and we can't get food to the eastern half of the > country? Or power? (1) For national infrastructures, a "parallel" Internet-type communications network, totally isolated from the real Internet. (2) Governments should educate their country's computer people to recognise vulnerabilities and how to block them; too many self-declared "komputar xperts" haven't a clue about robust security. Query: How did the Reds get into the Democrats computer systems ? Hope it wasn't a Redhat/Centos system but an 'open Windoze' set-up. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.