CAMBRIDGE – Fear of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” first appeared in the 1990s, and for the past two decades, policymakers have worried that hackers could blow up oil pipelines, contaminate the water supply, open floodgates and send airplanes on collision courses by hacking air traffic control systems. In 2012, then-US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that hackers could “shut down the power grid across large parts of the country.”
坎布里奇——对“网络珍珠港”的担忧最早出现在20世纪90年代，过去20年来，决策者一直担心黑客会炸毁油管、污染水源、开启泄洪闸和袭击空中交通控制系统制造撞机事件。2012年，时任美国国防部长帕内塔警告说黑客有能力“关闭美国大部分地区的电网”。