CyberSecurity Is For Sissies.

What do you know about cyber attacks? Me either. I guess the simplistic answer is that it would be like getting a bug in your computer that causes it to crash. Well if what I understand is true, that's pretty much what we're talking about. See, everything is run by computers any more. From our electric grid, to communications, to industry, water companies, banking, police forces and everything in between, they're all run in some way by computers and they're all tied together through the internet. So even if you don't have a computer, it would still affect you. Just imagine sitting down to watch your favorite reality show some night and suddenly the TV goes blank. So you go to the phone to call the cable company, but the phone is dead. Next you can't find your way back to the recliner because the lights went off. You feel your way to the kitchen for the flashlight and decide to pop some popcorn on the gas stove, but the pressure is gone so the burner won't stay lit. Soon it starts to get cold in the house because it's winter and the temperature is down to zero. You decide to get in your car and drive to the police station, but the garage door opener won't work. After you get that figured out, you go to the police station where the Sargent on duty tells you he has no information of any problems because his communications are out. While you're out, you decide to run to the store for some bread and milk, but the store is in complete darkness because the computer that tells the emergency lighting to turn on has crashed. The second store you go to is on fire and the sprinkler system doesn't turn on because there's no water pressure.  You notice you're nearly out of gas so you run down to the station for a fillup, but guess what? That's right, the pumps don't work. By the time you get home, there's frost on the kitchen table. We've been attacked through cyberspace. How could all this be happening? Because Congress has been unwilling to act on a CyberSecurity bill. Why? Because the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is against it. Why? You wouldn't believe me if I told you.