AG - "Fear of ISIS Cyber-Attack Keeps me Up at Night"

[Ben]

The AG says that the thought of an ISIS cyber-attack is one of the greatest threats to the country. Really? So where has she been the last half year while cyber-attacks from people who actually know what they're doing have been going on? This administration is full of the biggest group of knuckleheads that I have ever seen.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/26/lynch-thought-islamic-state-cyber-attack-on-us-keeps-me-up-at-night/?intcmp=hpbt2

[SADShooter]

Well, an activist DoJ engaging in selective or partisan investigations/prosecutions of U.S. citizens and entities worries me a mite more.

[Firethorn]

The AG says that the thought of an ISIS cyber-attack is one of the greatest threats to the country. Really? So where has she been the last half year while cyber-attacks from people who actually know what they're doing have been going on? This administration is full of the biggest group of knuckleheads that I have ever seen.

That's like how some people keep going on about terrorists attacking a nuclear plant, perhaps stealing material to make a dirty bomb.

1.  Nuclear plants are hard targets.  Compiling a force capable of taking on it's internal security forces, while keeping the plan secret from the CIA and FBI, very difficult.  Remember, Osama didn't expect 9/11 to go off the way it did, and even then his redundant plan was breaking down at the end.
2.  Even if you attack with enough to overwhelm the internal forces, every police and military tactical unit will be heading there at full velocity once it's known it's under attack.
3.  They would have to find, extract, and escape with said radioactive materials, probably without heavy equipment, while somehow avoiding poisoning themselves so badly they're dead before they can make and use the dirty bomb, without the feds using relatively cheap sensors to follow their path - if it's that hot, following the trail should be easy.
4.  Attacking a hospital for radioactive sources would be easier, and sufficiently 'hot'.
5.  Attacking hardened targets is not a typical terrorist activity.  Sure, they do it every so often, especially where they have greater amounts of power, but that's not the USA.

Going back to ISIS and security attacks - I'm worried about cyber attacks more from North Korea than I am from ISIS.  ISIS hacking abilities extend to weak passwords on facebook accounts.

I rate NK behind Russia and China as well. 

[makattak]

That's like how some people keep going on about terrorists attacking a nuclear plant, perhaps stealing material to make a dirty bomb.

1. Nuclear plants are hard targets.  Compiling a force capable of taking on it's internal security forces, while keeping the plan secret from the CIA and FBI, very difficult.  Remember, Osama didn't expect 9/11 to go off the way it did, and even then his redundant plan was breaking down at the end.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-usa-nuclear-security-idUSBRE8751AM20120806

The peace activists, 82-year old Sister Megan Rice, 63-year old Michael Walli and 57-year old Greg Boertje-Obed, cut through a number of fences to reach the outer walls of a building called the "Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Storage Facility", the U.S. government's main stockpile site for bomb-grade uranium.

[lee n. field]

That's like how some people keep going on about terrorists attacking a nuclear plant, perhaps stealing material to make a dirty bomb.

1.  Nuclear plants are hard targets.  Compiling a force capable of taking on it's internal security forces, while keeping the plan secret from the CIA and FBI, very difficult.  Remember, Osama didn't expect 9/11 to go off the way it did, and even then his redundant plan was breaking down at the end.

Security from the Byron nuke plant sometimes  practice at the gun club here.