E-terrorism, Bark or Bite?

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Posted by timothy on Sunday September 1, 2002 @09:07AM from the that-darn-innernet dept.

packeteer writes: "Huge multi-part article on CNET news about electronic terrorism. The article has some interesting scenarios about posible types of attacks. It also has some good info about whats being done to prevent attacks as well as some info about media-hype that's put on 'hackers'. Good read."

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This Just In! by DrugCheese · 2002-09-01 09:27 · Score: 3, Funny

E-Terrorist Hackers Foil Local Website

Arny's Dry Cleaning located at 1010 East Kimberly was recently hacked by hackers. The hacking was carried out by E-Terrorists hackers who left this message: you were hacked by hackers
The local police and FBI are working togeher to catch the hackers who hacked this out. More at 11

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Bite? by Hilleh · 2002-09-01 09:56 · Score: 2, Funny

It's got about as much bite as my 12 year old brother trying to Win Nuke my *nix server because someone in the Yahoo hackers lounge told him it would "totally be pwned".
Terrorists can't bring down economy with computers by Ilan+Volow · 2002-09-01 10:17 · Score: 4, Funny

The venture capitalists and wild stock market speculation beat them to it.

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Re:Why not done already? by AndroidCat · 2002-09-01 10:56 · Score: 2, Funny

Even as we "speak", terrorists are signing up for MSCE courses. Be on guard!

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In the Real World... by epcraig · 2002-09-01 11:46 · Score: 2, Funny

One would think that by now that China and its Renegade Province of Taiwan would have served sufficiently as a laboratory of internet cyber-terrorism. They've been attacking each others' systems for a few years now.
So far, the result has been some defaced web pages, and the deprecation by both governments of Microsoft software.

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wrong word by Cyberop5 · 2002-09-01 11:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Everyone knows that the e is dead and i is in... this year's buzzword is iTerrorist.

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Re:Links by alienmole · 2002-09-01 14:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Canonical example of karma whoring!