Will America be hacked to death?

Instead of flying airplanes into buildings America’s enemies will try to destroy us by hacking our computers – at the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, where we’re most vulnerable.

That’s thrust of a CNN article by Chris Frates and Curt Devine.

Sony’s capitulation to North Korea, without a shot being fired, is just the opening salvo.

There were almost 61,000 cyber attacks and security breaches across the entire federal government last year. Cyber incidents involving government agencies has soared from 34,000 in 2010 to 46,000 in 2013.

If the IRS is hit, billions of dollars in returns could be taken and the systems erased. Imagine the chaos that would cause.

Just ask individuals who have had false tax returned filed in their names, to get their refunds. It takes months for the victim to prove that they are the real person while the criminal spends taxpayers' money gleefully.

This despite federal government agencies spending $10 billion on information security.

The main problem: employees who click into phishing attacks. There's no patch for that.

The other problem: Hackers get off scott-free, with a few exceptions, so the reward is far greater than the risk.

Who would have thought that nerds would become a bigger threat to America than Rambos?