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I pretty much agree with doofrat, especially about password security.
Not everything is connected to the Net. The train reservation system may be on the Net but not the system that controls the traffic.
Furthermore, computers are not seamlessly connected in real time. Different software systems could operate in batch mode, independent of one another.
It difficult enough to get the computers in a one-location company to talk together, much less the whole country.
Yes, cyber attacks can create disruptions and inconvenience, but I don’t believe that, at this point, cyber attacks can bring down the whole country.
Remember the Y2K bug? It was a non-event.
