Fight Club Redux
"What happens when the attacker (hacker) is not attempting to steal money, but to destroy the process that accounts for money? That's the real issue we have to worry about. It's all record keeping. It's accountability of the wealth and the movement of that money through the system that has to be reconciled at the speed of light. So, if you impact, or contaminate the data, or destroy the data well you couldn't have reconciliation, you could have cascading impact in the banking system."
"If everybody goes down to take the money out it's not there. So, that's the issue. Since banking is based on confidence, what happens when you destroy confidence?"--John Michael McConnell, USN (Ret.), former Director of National Intelligence
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