It must take some getting used to. Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, knows the Pentagon is under 24-hour cyber siege. There constantly are thousands of what he calls ?exploitive? cyber probes from nations ?pulsing the system,? trying to devise tools to disrupt the control systems without which complex societies such as ours cannot function. Panetta, a seasoned Washingtonian who laughs easily and a temperate Californian who frets about the San Francisco Giants? bats, is not given to hyperbole. But he says any cyber attack that ?crippled our [electricity] grid or took down our financial system would make Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined look mild? in terms of social disruption.
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