Great Throughts Treasury

"Cyber weapons don?t get rid of conventional or nuclear weapons ? they just add a new layer to the existing system of terror."

"In September 2008, more than 3 million people in the state of Espirito Santo in Brazil were plunged into darkness, victims of a blackmail operation from cyber pirates."

"Cyberattacks could be as powerful as weapons of mass destruction."

"The information technologies which were historically born from military research are, today, on the verge of developing an offensive capability of destruction, which could tomorrow, if we?re not careful, completely destroy world peace."