American Voices

National Cyber Security

April 28, 2004 | ISSUE 40•17

The Department of Homeland Security recently identified a serious Internet security flaw that could leave the web vulnerable to hackers. What do you think?

  • If someone can take down the Internet, our nation stands in grave danger of being massively inconvenienced.

    Lois Foster
    Training Specialist

  • The danger is evident. We must post tanks at the entrances to all cyber cafes immediately.

    Roy Benjamin
    Manager

  • We're safe, unless the hacker community finds out about this.

    Sean Hughes
    Systems Analyst

  • Hmm. Maybe outsourcing all those programming jobs to Afghanistan was a bad idea, after all.

    Aaron Brookings
    Family Practitioner

  • The terrorists have already put an end to free music downloads. What's next?

    Lori Simmons
    Dancer

  • My God! What would we do if there was no Internet? Go back to watching television?

    Russ Ward
    Deliveryman

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