Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "ABC News Live Update: New details in wave of cyberattacks targeting the US" video.

  1. It was American universities using telephone signals to join computers, calling it the information highway. In 1980 there were three universities in Toronto that were wired in, each paying $50,000 a year for the privilege. When American military realized what was going on they took over and constructed a new system and called it the world wide web, a very appropriate name. The first "hacking" from the States was called "piggy-backing", using a secondary signal to monitor the use of others and also access their computer capacity. For a modern example, over seven years ago a Scottish accountant noticed $600,000 was missing from a school board account. This amount was traced through the European Union to a financial business on Wall Street. After informing world governments you didn't see unexpected bankruptcies like Greece and Iceland again. I was talking with a Lebanese computer specialist last summer. He said if Americans didn't spend so much on military and spent on computer security it wouldn't be so easy to use it against them. Ontario Hydro was coerced into hiring an American as executive officer. He initiated a process to purchase an electricity supplier in America. An American judge stopped the sale, saying it could be politicized in Ontario. He fined Ontario Hydro $23,000,000 for non-completion of the sale. The American didn't dispute this and told Ontario rate-payers they wouldn't see it on their hydro bill. He quit and was hired to run the Tennessee Valley Authority. Americans need to clean up their act.
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