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 »