Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg basically used his appearance on 60 Minutes as an infomercial and their wrinkled reporters couldn’t tell the difference.
Larry Silverstein, the real estate tycoon who leased the WTC site from the Port Authority and personally stands to gain the most from the country’s worst ever terrorist attack, said the lack of progress at Ground Zero is a “national disgrace,” which is true, but so is he. See what else the controversial figure has to say when he appears in an interview on “60 Minutes” this Sunday and discusses some of the setbacks he’s been facing. |CBS|
Last night CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a disturbing report on how the next big attack on America may come not via bombs or planes flying into buildings but via the internet, where skilled hackers can disrupt the nation’s energy grid, banking system, air traffic controls, etc. Steve Kroft reported that we are, more than any other country, vulnerable to such attacks because we’ve moved so much of our government and industry onto the internet. The whole piece was downright scary, but sort of buried inside of it was the revelation that in 2007 a group of hackers basically infiltrated all of the U.S. government’s computers and downloaded everything, financial records, military secrets, EVERYTHING, and the Bush administration, which loves to tout how they “kept the country safe” during their reign, kept it all under wraps to spare themselves the embarrassment. And perhaps worst of all, we still have no idea who did it. Read more »
Editor-in-Chief:
