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Capable of doing real damage? >> certainly the potential is there. cyber is the great equalizer. ian talked about us not being a threat militarily but they can reach out and touch us through the use of cyber attack. our critical infrastructure is penetrable. they targeted a dam in new york and were the -- was the gate not actually attached physical, they had access to a computer, there would have been a flood they would have been able to have launched because of that particular attack. they also have created service attacks against the u.s. financial services sector a couple of years ago becau...

Service attacks, millions of simultaneous online hits, shut down access to government websites and newspaper websites and other online media. then the telephone networks, the credit card verification systems, banking, even the basic indexing structure of the internet, all tied up in estonia. it went on for weeks. a total shutdown. the russian government said they did not do it but couldn't rule out the possibility that patriotic individual russians just did it on their own free time. the russian government also said they weren't behind a similar but more crippling attack on internet and i.t. s...