Republican Rep. Jon Porter of Nevada shared a scary scenario during a Monday discussion about securing the government's information technology. "My biggest fear is that Osama bin Laden is sitting with a laptop at a Four Seasons somewhere" and can shut down the United States' power grid with a mouse-click, he said.
Reps. Tom Davis, R-Va., and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., also spoke about securing federal computer networks. Davis said he was worried about "terrorists logging onto our system and causing a cyber Pearl Harbor" while Issa advocated for lesser dependence on Social Security Numbers as universal identifiers. "Social Security Numbers should no longer be the trigger for you being able to steal my ID," he said.
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