{"id":1951,"date":"2009-11-27T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2009-11-27T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:49:06","slug":"a-cure-for-complacency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/a-cure-for-complacency\/","title":{"rendered":"A cure for complacency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2009\/19_4_snd-cyber-threat.html\" target=\"_blank\">John P. Avlon<\/a> wants to shake your complacent attitude to the threats to everyday life:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First your cell phone doesn\u2019t work. Then you notice that you can\u2019t access the Internet. Down on the street, ATMs won\u2019t dispense money. Traffic lights don\u2019t function, and calls to 911 don\u2019t get routed to emergency responders. Radios report that systems controlling dams, railroads, and nuclear power plants have been remotely infiltrated and compromised. The air-traffic control system shuts down, leaving thousands of passengers stranded or rerouted and unable to communicate with loved ones. This is followed by a blackout that lasts not hours but days and even weeks. Our digital civilization shudders to a halt. When we emerge, millions of Americans\u2019 data are missing, along with billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>This scenario may sound like the latest doomsday blockbuster to come out of Hollywood. But each of the elements described above has occurred over the past decade as the result of a cyber-attack. Cyber-attacks are an accelerating threat, still without generally accepted terminology, effective deterrents, or comprehensive legal remedies. They are weapons of mass disruption, used by adversaries cloaked in anonymity, that could prove at least temporarily crippling to the digital infrastructure of modern society. This kind of attack is attractive to America\u2019s enemies, not only because it allows weaker entities to take on far stronger ones but because it turns our technological strength into a weakness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John P. Avlon wants to shake your complacent attitude to the threats to everyday life: First your cell phone doesn\u2019t work. Then you notice that you can\u2019t access the Internet. Down on the street, ATMs won\u2019t dispense money. Traffic lights don\u2019t function, and calls to 911 don\u2019t get routed to emergency responders. Radios report that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[189,334],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cyberwar","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}