These hackers warned the Internet would become a security disaster. Nobody listened.

[FlyingPenguin]

And this was in 1998...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/busine ... ty-part-3/

Your computers, they told the panel of senators in May 1998, are not safe — not the software, not the hardware, not the networks that link them together. The companies that build these things don’t care, the hackers continued, and they have no reason to care because failure costs them nothing. And the federal government has neither the skill nor the will to do anything about it.

“If you’re looking for computer security, then the Internet is not the place to be,” said Mudge, then 27 and looking like a biblical prophet with long brown hair flowing past his shoulders. The Internet itself, he added, could be taken down “by any of the seven individuals seated before you” with 30 minutes of well-choreographed keystrokes...{more}

[Losbot]

Just another example of how the govt NEVER listens to its people.

[EvilHorace]

Well, things can't be THAT bad yet because so far (knock on wood), no one's hacked things here (or elsewhere to my knowledge) that's shut down government, power plants, etc. I think it's just a matter of time but so far we've been lucky.....OR there are some very skilled IT people who are still on top of the game?