Very, very scary. And not to be morbid but can one imagine if the hackers got into the databases if the INGREDIENTS (compounds) used to make "lifesaving" drugs as we have today due to the miracles of scientists AND altered them so that the drugs became "KILLERS" instead.
ISIS and NK would be dancing in the streets as they kill off Americans without even firing a single shot. It's the way Germany took over the former Czechoslovakia in WWII without firing a single shot. They (Germans) gave them an ULTIMATUM of being massacred on a wholesale level or just capitulate and Czechoslovakia succumbed to being held HOSTAGE.
Can you imagine if it was released in the news that the CDC was hacked HARD......OCSY would become a $100 stock instantly (as well as any other company's in the cyber security area) in the mad scramble to put an end to the THREAT!!! And the most frightening part is it could happen at ANY TIME going forward.
My biggest fear is when the power grid goes down for the last time......and that is just a matter of time. Within weeks, America will become and function like it did in the year 1900.
"PERLROTH: It appears not. You would assume that now that these tools are out there, that they're being used not just against Merck but against American hospitals. That is considered a critical infrastructure attack in the United States. So you would assume that if the NSA has a kill switch, they would have pulled it by now. "