Cyber-Terrorism

Since Jon's presentation about cyber-terrorism, I have been quite interested in looking up this new kind of "warfare". I have come to think that it could totally change our world in the next few years. Hacking groups, such as LulzSec, Anonymous, Masters Of Deception (MOD), and Milw0rm have potential to do many things that could cause much destruction. For example the group Milw0rm hacked into the systems of Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) which is the main nuclear center in India. What would happen if someone in the group just wanted something at that reactor site to go wrong. It could potentially kill millions of people. There is a lot of power and responsibility on the internet. As some have said. It could even be the next form of terrorism. In my opinion, it is even scarier than people who run planes into buildings because a terrorist/hacker does not even have to leave the comfort of his or her home to do things of potentially very destructive nature. These people are also good enough that it is very hard to track and find them. Just as we had to look for terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan, we will have to look for them in the streaming and endless world of digital information. It might just be easier to find them in the mountains.
 Now to go to somewhat of a tangent. Recently, the government has attempted to cut down on internet crime such as this with acts such as SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). This was however not well received by the American people. The acts could very easily lead to violation of personal information and privacy laws. This would give some people complete authority to go where ever they needed to go to find information and it would also give them the authority to take a website completely offline without any red tape. Those acts thus failed, but the government will not stop trying. They now are trying to pass CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. I will attach an article from a few days ago for reference. We just have to keep in mind that our rights are at stake when the government gets involved with the internet. Is it worth the cost just so the gov. can stop some online piracy? What do people think? Do you think that it will solve cyber-terrorism of will we ever be able to stop it?

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/23/ron-paul-cispa-cyberterrorism-bill?newsfeed=true