Attack on cyberspace: Why we have to defend ourselves against the inevitable

It's time to do some out-of-the-box thinking

Dr. Alfred Spector, vice president, Google Research, participated in a study for the National Research Council that urges the U.S. government to adopt a Cybersecurity Bill of Rights.

"No one knows what the worst-case scenarios really are," says Dr. Spector, "but as the use of computers grows to more and more domains where they’re really important to the life, safety and economic well-being of the country, we can envision attacks that could take down critical services on the network that people are depending upon for life, or that would have a gigantic impact on the economy if they went down."

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