What happened with the Aum Shinri Kyo incident?
The important point that the story of the Aum cult brings home is the plausibility of the cyberterrorist threat. We may never see a cyber attack, but it would be irresponsible for those who are entrusted with national security to not consider the consequences. For example, if someone had said before it happened that a small New Age cult would launch a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system to spur some Armageddon that would somehow leave their cult leader in charge of the world, you would think it was implausible. But it happened. And the Aum cult was not only was preparing for chemical warfare and other kinds of warfare. They were actively engaging in hacking into Japanese corporations and other entities around the world to gain technology they wanted–laser technology, for instance–because they wanted to build their own laser guns. And they, in fact, targeted and were recruiting software engineers and scientists and bright young people who had skills that they wanted. And they
