The link: http://news.com.com/2009-1001-954728.html?tag=fd_lede

An interesting article on cyber terrorism. I feel cyber terrorism has less to do with terrorist and more to do with government departments playing on people’s fears so they can get bigger budgets. Of course the media only add fuel to the fire because there interested in ratings and not the facts. Then there’s the experts. The ones you see on the news spinning the latest cyber terrorism dooms day scenario just so they can get on T.V and sell there new book. These so called experts would have you believe that bin ladin is hiding in a cave with a laptop waiting for the perfect opportunity to ddos your Grandmas geocites page. I can’t help but roll my eyes any time someone starts talking about how hackers could turn off the power and crash the stock markets. Just my $0.02

Intro

Doomsday predictions of a "digital Pearl Harbor" have persisted in the year since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

The specter was a driving force behind controversial new law enforcement measures portrayed as necessary by the government but decried by civil libertarians as an assault on constitutional rights to privacy. Yet security experts, network managers and public safety officials say privately that the threat of cyberterrorism has been overblown and misunderstood--and that physical attacks remain far easier to carry out.

As a result, government officials and industry leaders may have spent needless effort addressing an arguably nonexistent enemy at a time when all resources are needed to guard against more realistic dangers. In this three-day special report, CNET News.com reporters in New York, San Francisco and Washington examine the technological and political realities of this volatile issue.
The other three parts

Safety: Assessing the infrastructure risk
http://news.com.com/2009-1001-954780.html

Politics: Weighing security against liberties
http://news.com.com/2009-1001-954565.html

Lessons: Keeping networks alive in New York
http://news.com.com/2009-1001-954796.html