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>> dan coats once said that what kept him up at night was the rumored russian ability to turn off the power in new england in the middle of winter. tell the folks watching tonight at the risk of scaring them to death before bed on a friday evening, how bad could it get? what could someone do? >> it could get very bad. you know, granted this report in "the new york times" was about very rudimentary things, right? about spearfishing, people cook clicking on the wrong link and downloading malware into their computer. but that's the first step in going after turning off, oh, a hydroelectric plant ...

Their computer. that's the first step in going after turning off a hydro electric plan or turning off a substation and plunging a million people into dark know. these are infrastructure attacks which are very hard to do because we have such a large civilian infrastructure not protected at a governmental level the way many other countries around the world are. when you turn off power, you kill people. respirators go off until the batteries come on. or until generators come. on it can be very difficult. people lose their air conditioning. so these are the sorts of things that are at the far end ...

You know, e-mails that called actresses spoiled brats or revealed the salaries of studio executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. we've only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an attack from north korea with great similarities to the sony attack that hit banks in south korea. a...

Actresses spoiled brats or revealed the salaries of studio executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. we've only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an attack from north korea with great slaters s imio the sony attack that hit banks in south korea. and then the largest cyber attac...

Executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. we've only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an attack from north korea with great similarities to the sony attack that hit banks in south korea. and then the largest cyber attack that we know of, olympic games which was a u.s./israeli ...