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Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National<br />

Hazard”<br />

Kurt Nimmo<br />

Infowars<br />

March 23, 2009<br />

According to <strong>the</strong> great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, nephew of banker David<br />

Rockefeller, and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller <strong>the</strong><br />

internet represents a serious threat to national security. Rockefeller is not alone in this<br />

assessment. His belief that <strong>the</strong> internet is <strong>the</strong> “number one national hazard” to national<br />

security is shared <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and<br />

Obama’s current director Admiral Dennis C. Blair.<br />

“It really almost makes you ask <strong>the</strong> question would it have been better if we had never<br />

invented <strong>the</strong> internet,” Rockefeller mused during <strong>the</strong> confirmation hearing of Gary Locke<br />

(see video), Obama’s choice for Commerce Secretary. He <strong>the</strong>n cites a dubious figure of<br />

three million cyber “attacks” launched against <strong>the</strong> Department of Defense every day.<br />

“Everybody is attacked, anybody can do it. People say, well it’s China and Russia, but<br />

<strong>the</strong>re could be some kid in Latvia doing <strong>the</strong> same thing.”<br />

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=Ct9xzXUQLuY<br />

Jay Rockefeller’s comments reveal an astounding degree of ignorance – or if not<br />

ignorance, outright propaganda. Since <strong>the</strong> September 11, 2001, attacks <strong>the</strong> government<br />

has cranked up <strong>the</strong> fear quotient in regard to cyber attacks and so-called cyber terrorism,<br />

a virtually non-existent threat except in <strong>the</strong> minds security experts and politicians. In <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>years</strong> since <strong>the</strong> attacks, not one real instance of real cyberterrorism has been recorded.<br />

“Cyberattacks on critical components of <strong>the</strong> national infrastructure are not uncommon,<br />

but <strong>the</strong>y have not been conducted <strong>by</strong> terrorists and have not sought to inflict <strong>the</strong> kind of<br />

damage that would qualify as cyberterrorism,” writes Gabriel Weimann, author of Terror<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Internet. “Nuclear weapons and o<strong>the</strong>r sensitive military systems, as well as <strong>the</strong><br />

computer systems of <strong>the</strong> CIA and FBI, are ‘air-gapped,’ making <strong>the</strong>m inaccessible to<br />

outside hackers. Systems in <strong>the</strong> private sector tend to be less well protected, but <strong>the</strong>y are<br />

far from defenseless, and nightmarish tales of <strong>the</strong>ir vulnerability tend to be largely<br />

apocryphal.”<br />

“Psychological, political, and economic forces have combined to promote <strong>the</strong> fear of<br />

cyberterrorism,” Weimann continues. “From a psychological perspective, two of <strong>the</strong>

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