President Obama has warned that al-Qaeda and other groups have threatened computer warfare, with critical national infrastructure at high risk. The US also accuses at least two foreign powers of planting software in the US electric grid that could shut it down in times of increased tension.
Acts of terror today, he said, could come "not only from a few extremists in suicide vests, but from a few key strokes of a computer - a weapon of mass disruption."
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