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"E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin

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. Well... by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 0, Troll

    They were off by a day, and they brought down two airplanes instead of the internet...

    Maybe there was a translation error in their intelligence?

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  2. Could be rephrased as by Talondel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Earlier reports that cyber-terrorists would be bringing down the internet today have now been denounced as "Slashdot editors complete lack of common sense or fact checking".

  3. Maybe... by MinusBlindfold · · Score: 1, Troll

    the attack will be tomorrow to throw everyone off... The one thing that makes a 'terrorist' attack such a big thing, is the element of surprise. If we all know its coming, we can prepare and arrange for counter attack efforts, which i am sure some security specialists had at least thought about yesterday/early today. Do you think if people had a hint that 9/11 might happen, some people would err on the side of cauti.... oh wait

  4. Re:Bright side by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 1, Troll
    the fact that people (especially some of the media) realizing not all of the stuff that comes on the net needs to make sense

    And it only took them 9 years (give or take a few years since the web took off) to figure that fact out! Wow. At this rate, It will only be 40 more years until these "people" stop buying things from spammers.