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"E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the its-august-so-there's-no-other-news dept.

decompiler writes "Earlier reports that cyber-terrorists would be bringing down the internet today have now been denounced as "Russian media sensationalist spin", and Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks says, "There have been no precursors to a large-scale attack.""

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  1. Terrorism anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3596354.stm

    So they didn't crash the internet. They do seem to have crashed a couple of planes though.

  2. Re:A bit of history to put things in perspective.. by jafiwam · · Score: 2, Informative

    It couldnt have been DNS, TTLs would ensure that some functionality would remain for a while... they must have been talking about being able to disable big routers all over or something similar.

    Someone already took out 11 of the 13 Root servers a while back, Joe User didn't even notice.