Matt H

Staffs, UK

Snr Web Developer

So MusicFan thinks that a new hard drive is all that's needed? I'm not an IS Security Expert, but I can imagine what would happen if the IT Infrastructure of the UK got hacked and taken offline.

Let's see.... the power grid is run by computers. Banking is run by computers. Hospitals are run by computers. Rail and Road Infrastructure are run by computers. The Emergency Services require computers. The phones are run by computers.....

So a cyber terrorist attack could potentially shut a whole country down city by city, service by service, until we're in a digital black out. Not so easy to buy a new hard drive if you can't get to the ATM, where you can't access your bank account, and then of course you can't actually buy anything because you can't get to the shop who aren't able to access the EPOS system in the first place! There's more at stake than just a hard drive IMHO.