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I intended last week's second column on the Big One - the mega-global cyberdisaster coming soon to crush a network near you - was going to be the last on the topic, but comments keep coming in.
My friend Stephen Cobb,a wellknown information security consultant, wrote,"I know a lot of people find this hard to swallow, but [my wife and 1] were absolutely serious a few years ago when we said that the Internet continues to function at the whim of those who know how to bring it down. In other words, the people who could do it have so far decided not to [mainly because they know it would be wrong]. Nothing has changed since then to alter my opinion. I have zero doubt that the entire Internet can be brought down, and kept down for at least 10 days. That would be long enough to cause major global economic and strategic pain."
Cobb continued:...