The US does poorly in mock cyber-crisis, which might not be such a bad thing once we look at it.
Participants also wrangled over how far to go in regulating the private sector, which owns the vast majority of the “critical” infrastructure that is vulnerable to a cyber attack. Stewart Baker, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security who played the “cyber coordinator” on Tuesday, said that the private sector was not prepared to defend against a cyber act of war and that the government needed to play a role.
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it. I’d feel better about the government having emergency powers over stuff if they didn’t think every stiff breeze was an emergency.
Not So Fast 