Someday, according to national security and tech experts, there will be a massive cyber attack on the U.S. Some have speculated this could be against our electrical grid or our banking system or some other aspect of our society that relies on the internet and other tech systems.
How will it happen? That's what this country spends billions of dollars trying to answer and trying to defend against.
Which brings me to this new Pokemon Go craze sweeping the country.
If you don't have kids or grandkids, this is a new phone app where kids (and plenty of adults) can search for Pokemon characters in various public (and some private) locations. The technology is quite remarkable, actually, and the app has already been downloaded tens of millions times in a matter of days.
But what better way to rapidly introduce a virus that would disable every phone it infects?
The window for this particular app has already closed (I think) as there has been plenty of time for cyber security experts to examine it. But what would happen if millions of cell phones instantly went dark, or allowed a hacker to download banking info etc?
Would having to throw out millions of smart phones make an impact? Or no big deal?
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The big Pokemon Go 'what if'
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