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Obama spouts urban legend

Big Muddy rancher

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Obama (!) spouts an urban legend in his cybersecurity speech
...and we'll achieve cyber superiority with the space alien technology we've been hiding at Area 51

Written by Rob Rosenberger
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Good grief, who wrote the president’s speech today? His new cybersecurity proposal includes this urban legend:

“…and that in other countries cyber attacks have plunged entire cities into darkness…”

I and other experts bashed this urban legend more than a year ago. Now I’ve got President 2.0 spouting it as if it’s a fact.

It’s an urban legend because no one knows any details whatsoever. To be specific:

* Who plunged entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse? No one knows.
* When did these cyber-terrorists plunge entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse? No one knows.
* Where are these cities that plunged into darkness with the click of a mouse? No one knows.
* Why did the cyber-terrorists plunge these cities into darkness with the click of a mouse? No one knows.
* How widespread were these cyber-terror blackouts? No one knows.
* Whose power grid Internet connection did the cyber-terrorists exploit? No one knows.
* How many victims perished in these cyber-attacks? No one knows.
* What did it cost to clean up after these cyber-terror attacks? No one knows.
* Does Interpol want to extradite a U.S. citizen so he can stand trial on charges of cyber-terrorism? No one knows.

Listen to me, folks. Cyber fearmongers crave this kind of information. They crave it like a drug. And yet none of the cyber fearmongers has ever come forward to say “this city got hit on this date by this terror group using clandestine funds from this nation for this purpose, plunging this many people into darkness and killing this many hospital patients who lost power to their life support systems.”

It’s an urban legend, folks. It doesn’t make it any more real when it flows from the lips of the president of the United States…
 

backhoeboogie

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Mrs.Greg said:
Silver said:
How many want to bet he gets elected to a second term? :lol:
:shock: Your gonna give Sandy a coronary :lol2:

He's a shoe in if he gets a jump start on Y3K. Does anyone still remember all the Y2K panic? Al Gore should have milked that one a little harder.
 

Silver

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Aww, c'mon, we all know that by the time he's the guest of honour at his own state funeral he will be of nearly godlike stature, there will be statues, libraries, and airports in his name..... just like all the others :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Yanuck

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Silver said:
How many want to bet he gets elected to a second term? :lol:

sure he will, my Mother thinks he's wonderful, " he's such a good speaker", I told her Brian Mulroney gave a great speech too and look what he did for Canada :roll: :roll:
 

Silver

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Yanuck said:
Silver said:
How many want to bet he gets elected to a second term? :lol:

sure he will, my Mother thinks he's wonderful, " he's such a good speaker", I told her Brian Mulroney gave a great speech too and look what he did for Canada :roll: :roll:

Worse yet, P.E.T. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
 

Yanuck

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Silver said:
Yanuck said:
Silver said:
How many want to bet he gets elected to a second term? :lol:

sure he will, my Mother thinks he's wonderful, " he's such a good speaker", I told her Brian Mulroney gave a great speech too and look what he did for Canada :roll: :roll:

Worse yet, P.E.T. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

its been said.....Obamania andTrudeaumania are eerily similiar
 
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