Question: will wide-spread internet attacks, organised by terror-cells really happen?
Answer: is the race for "patches", small pieces of software, that the big developpers continuously spread through their websites, smart marketing:
typical assessment: you create fear, you create gusto, you create a consumerist-demand, a drive, a need for updates, by pumping rumours through all available channels:
example: the latest defcon, and the scare for the latest "hole" in Windows software...
add in a little FBI comment: quote - "we recommend everybody to install the Windows upgrades"....
result: free advertising, massive visits and downloading (with the additional benefits of being able to track your customers and their behaviour)
add it into the big numbercrunchers and you get TIA: total information awareness.
Consequence: the public is held hostage to software evolution.
"Oh, you don't have windows 2008, damn, too bad, you can't enroll in this class, job, country, ..."
"Oh, you only master word 2000, damn, you're fired..."
Answer: wide spread internet attacks will almost certainly happen: if not conducted by smart-ass would-be terrorists willing to shut down power grids matrix-style, it will be the corporate zurich gnomes, or the clever hacks at m-soft, in collusion with american paramilitary black-ops: their sole objective: keep you in fear, keep you consuming, keep you ignorant, keep you docile, keep you under control.
Has anybody ever explained to you what a "patch" really is, it sounds more like a pain-killing patch they hand out to hospital patients...
Bleak future: wars will be fought by tribes on the streets trying to access the latest patch-software that gives them higher user-status or access to certain privileges...
