The Front at Home

As the largest economy with the Internet everywhere, we are potentially vulnerable to attacks that will disrupt our home front. Our enemies don't need to cross oceans or penetrate our military defenses. The threat may be overblown or potential enemies may not be up to the task, but it is a big unknown.

We are exploring this new front (from Jane's email alerts):

CIA runs cyber war game
In May 2005, several US news outlets reported on a classified war game being conducted by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to rehearse defending against a massive electronic cyber attack. The exercise, entitled 'Silent Horizon', follows 'Livewire', a similar war game run earlier by the Department of Homeland Security. 'Silent Horizon', according to reports, sought to follow on from the lessons learned during 'Livewire' and other war games, and was in part intended to test responses to large-scale, multiple attacks.
[Jane's/RUSI Monitor - first posted to http://rjhm.janes.com - 8 June 2005]

It's a strange world. With lots of threats.

This decade truly sucks. I believe I've mentioned this before.