Pakistan Internet Crash

This past week an undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet. Work in many offices across the country ground to a halt as people realized it was not one of Pakistan's regular, but usually brief, technical hitches.

"It's a worst-case scenario. We are literally blank," said a senior foreign banker who declined to be identified. There was some type of fault was in the undersea cable and had been caused by a power supply problem. Fixing it will entail an interruption for other countries using the link, including India, Dubai and Oman, one company official said. Airlines and credit card companies were among the businesses hit by the crash.

This was the response and the reaction to the Internet collapse of one country, imagine this happening to the U.S. grant it Pakistan may not be as wired and connected as the U.S. but if something were to happen to the U.S. how much more chaos and damage would have occurred.

Ironically this was just a glitch what if someone had purposely set out to collapse the electric infrastructure. This story is an example of why cyber-terrorism needs to be looked at more closely.