The blossoming of the Internet and its universal adoption have reinforced a trend toward interdependence of the world's political, economic and social systems. That increasing interdependence, however, becomes frightening when one considers that a next-generation cyber terrorist will likely not represent an aggressive world power. In terms of present-day vulnerability, such a terrorist could simply be a lone fanatic wielding a laptop. And the damage could be staggering. 'Asymmetric Warfare' A study by the Rand Corporation in the mid-1990s found that it would be absurdly inexpensive to embark upon a cyber war. The military call it "asymmetric warfare," which means that the disadvantaged side must use unconventional weapons against the wealthier side if it is to have any chance of winning. Any country that can scrape together the price of a computer manual and that has a basic understanding of information systems infrastructure can train and motivate a misguided "patriot." Anonymous Warfare Due to recent advances in "attack technology," cyber warfare can be waged remotely and anonymously. This approach would make it much harder to find an attacker than it is, for example, to root out Al Qaeda forces along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. "Because of the advances in attack technology , a single attacker can relatively easily employ a large number of distributed systems to launch devastating attacks against a single victim," according to a report by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a major center for Internet security at Carnegie Mellon University. "As the automation of deployment and the sophistication of attack tool management both increase, the asymmetric nature of the threat will continue to grow," the report said. After calling a net scare alert that tanked the Fucking Bungling Imbeciles are asking for help...begging for help. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19059.html Ryans got 4 kids to support,like some taxi driver on Mars.