In early 1995, President Clinton signed Executive Order 12864, establishing an advisory council called the Information Infrastructure Task Force, which was tasked with creating the building blocks for a National Information Infrastructure. Includes all forms from the Internet, cable, cellular, telephone, satellite and any other medium that connects systems together. Includes electric power, oil and gas. Systems are co-located with communications wiring and power, thus creating confocal vulnerabilities. Banking and finance .
Some brokerage houses move trillions of dollars per year over their networks.
Water supply . The water is physical, but the controls for moving fresh water to populations and maintaining sewers and waste treatment plants are electronic. Emergency services . 911, police, fire departments and medical response and rescue units are tightly knitted together with complex networks to provide high levels of efficiency and public trust. The Commission's findings, however, were less than illuminating, merely reiterating and reinforcing the same warnings and cautions that had been spelled out years before.