The extent of the infrastructure vulnerabilities that Perens talks about (not to mention the recent US power grid attacks) really highlights how unprepared civi

The extent of the infrastructure vulnerabilities that Perens talks about (not to mention the recent US power grid attacks) really highlights how unprepared civil government is in the face of dedicated attackers. Its all fine and dandy when your servers are the latest hardened SELinux, but when someone cuts your cables, you're really on the out. (You could try communicating via RFC 1149). I suspect that "disaster management" today really means wait for the military to come and take over...