Originally Posted by notime

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_...nfrastructure/
"It's about the privacy and the economic security of American families. We rely on the Internet to pay our bills, to bank, to shop, to file our taxes. But we've had to learn a whole new vocabulary just to stay ahead of the cyber criminals who would do us harm -- spyware and malware and spoofing and phishing and botnets. Millions of Americans have been victimized, their privacy violated, their identities stolen, their lives upended, and their wallets emptied. According to one survey, in the past two years alone cyber crime has cost Americans more than $8 billion."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_...ecurityReview/

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS...ama/index.html