A very high ranking colleague at Air Force Cyberspace Command dialed my cell phone this morning.  "Did you see the horrifying video of the propane depot explosion just outside of Toronto?"  He sent a link to my cell phone and I watched it in broadband.  Very disturbing.

I asked him if it was an accident or if someone had logged into the company's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems.  "Oh come on now," he said.  "You know full well it was a SCADA attack."  When I asked him where the attack originated, he floored me by admitting "it came from a Chinese military hacker unit stationed in Beijing" that was supposed to be terrorizing Americans by infiltrating their laptops and stealing their data.

"We've been reading their encrypted mIRC chat and it's almost funny.  They got angry when the Canadian women's soccer team dominated China's 'Steel Roses' soccer team," my colleague revealed.  "They certainly know how to take out their anger on the Candians," he added.

"It's not every day you watch a propane depot get destroyed by a military hacker living halfway around the world," my colleague went on to say.  But I took a more serious tone.  "Not yet," I said with a frown.  "But just you wait.  It wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese military launches SCADA attacks against hundreds of fuel depots here in the U.S. if our teams end up with more gold medals than their teams..."