I actually think -- it's possible -- I think we will all wake up one day and all our credit cards and debit cards simply will not work; and huge amounts of money will be missing from people's accounts.

Already it's reported how millions (!) of credit card info is stolen at point-of-sale in large department stores in malls, from banks, from the swipe machines at 7-11, etc.

Hard drives have been stolen even from the Defense Dept and Veterans Affairs, etc.

One day...poof! -- a teenager could do some of this for a joke; an enemy can do it as cyber-war.

Of course, we are doing cyber-war too. But the economies of China or Iraq are not so dependent upon ATM's.

Hopefully we'll get smarter leade...

I actually think -- it's possible -- I think we will all wake up one day and all our credit cards and debit cards simply will not work; and huge amounts of money will be missing from people's accounts.

Already it's reported how millions (!) of credit card info is stolen at point-of-sale in large department stores in malls, from banks, from the swipe machines at 7-11, etc.

Hard drives have been stolen even from the Defense Dept and Veterans Affairs, etc.

One day...poof! -- a teenager could do some of this for a joke; an enemy can do it as cyber-war.

Of course, we are doing cyber-war too. But the economies of China or Iraq are not so dependent upon ATM's.

Hopefully we'll get smarter leaders and they put some real smart people in charge of keeping their eye on this...but, like this current economic meltdown..we might take a hard hit before folks take it seriously.