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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.""
And I used to figure, if it's on the internet it must be true! There goes that theory...
Sounds like a "E-Jihadn't"
News Media
and
Exaggerated
From yesterday's
Diary:
"The ISC would like to go out on a limb and predict that the Internet will not vaporize into a cloud of nothingness this Thursday, but if it does, it's been our pleasure to help stave off its inevitable annihilation this long. "
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I took work off today because I thought the internet was gonna go down. I didn't mention my absence to any of my supervisors, because I figured they would all be freaking out because the internet is down so they wouldn't notice I was missing.
I should either:
A) Go to work.
B) Bring in some pruning shears and re-create the effect of the internet being down on a much more local scale by severing the fiber line.
Where are those shears at?
Except maybe for a couple of russian jetliners going down simultaneously out of the same airport.
In Mother Russia, the Internet attacks you....
wait a minute... my box gets port probed all day and I'm not even in Russia. grrrrrrrr
The E-Terror level has subsequently been lowered to #FFFF00
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about two weeks ago...
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
Is e-jihad a characteristic of the E-slam faith?
I knew it was just a big lie... There was no way those cowards were going to sd #4f d# $ i%5@
NO CARRIER
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
They were going to launch the attack, but the amazing security of XP SP2 has made potential victims impenetrable fortresses!
Well, look at the bright side. The fact that a lot of the news sources had denounced this as bullshit for the most part, and even made fun of it - is something positive.
:)
A while ago, something like this would have been treated a whole lot more seriously - the fact that people (especially some of the media) are realizing not all of the stuff that comes on the net needs to make sense is a slight silver lining
I just spent the last 4 hours hermetically sealing my linux box with duct tabe and plastic wrap.
I bet Al Gore is releived to hear is was a hoax, his baby was in jeopardy.
You mean to tell me that the thing that, according ot the media, "may or may not happen" didn't actually happen?
So in that case, the media was right. Why are we upset with them?
I think I may or may not get back to work now. Hey, at least I'm not lying.
Moo.
I just realized it was a normal day...despite the threat of a cyber-attack today.
Move along people nothing to see here...
Tomorrow Tom Ridge will probably announce that the United States could be under attack soon by a bunch off terrorists arriving in flying pigs...*sigh*
...in bed
Next thing you know, we're going to find out Iraq didn't have any WMDs. It's almost as if somebody actually BENEFITS from creating unsubstantiated media scares. Anyway, I gotta get back to duct taping my windows.
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People have been predicting the end of the internet as we know it for 20 years now (remember the cutover date 20 1/2 years ago ?) and somehow it still hasn't happened.
Somehow I don't think it ever will
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them
It is about TERROR! It is about emotional manipulation. I'm sorry, but no matter how financially devastating a loss of internet might be, it really doesn't compare to the emotional effect of watching two towers in New York getting hit by jumbo jets and falling to the ground. Not to mention the symbolism behind the world trade center. This whole idea of "cyber-terrorism" is a big joke perpetuated by the ignorant. I'm not saying that nobody will evertry to DDoS the Internet, but I don't really think it would have much to do with a "Jihad" or whatever. And it would be a mistake to lump it in with terrorism. I'm sure terrorists will stick to much more visible and non-virtual acts to get their point across.
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
or the terrorists will post some inane article about some freak who got Linux running on his toaster, then mirror the link using tinyurl to slashdot the entire internet! we'll have to all go out for a walk in the sunshine! damn you terrorists!
(wish I could be in NYC this weekend...)
CBVSD(F&*
free ipod and free gmail!
They were trying to fly the planes INTO the internet.
any thoughts what we would do
rent pr0n videos and buy cds...[shudder]
no we predicted there would be a story dupe posted today.
well, it did kinda happen, in a follow-up sorta way.
1. Make claims of wide scale internet attack
2. ???
3. Prophet!
That's not a typo
We knew it was a hoax yesterday.
Hot news! Obvious hoax TURNS OUT TO BE HOAX!
*sigh*
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.
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Independent of government interests, but not independent of corporate interests.
The U.S. public broadcasters seem to have a similar flavour and freedom as the BBC.
While Fox, CNN MSNBC et. al. exist entirely for profit and they're not judged on the quality of their news, but the palatability of thier content to their advertisers. The correlation between news and the public is a secondary effect of what the networks feel the advertisers feel the public wants to see... curbed by the advertisers' tendency to not want the public to see things which make the public adverse to particular forms of spending.
There are notable exceptions to the rule, but there are a lot of big stories which go ignored on "slow news days"
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm Shows a little hiccup, or something? What's that blip?
Oh, that's just great. Now I've got this image of isolated islanders wearing grass lab coats building a nuke out of bamboo and coconut milk.
Meanwhile an islander in a grass business suit is running about complaining infiltration from the "acka-ack-nunucket" island.
Thankfully I think I see Feynman swimming to shore, maybe he can save me!
Excessive forking causes un-wanted children.
Get it right, will ya!
Why bother.
I've gone Jihad electronicaly before
This was, by far, one of the cheesiest (legitimate) tactics I ever used in that game! I've won a game with nothing more than Jihad peasants!!! I'd build dozens of town centers (terrorist training facilities), and bumb rush the enemy town, burning down all of their buildings with nothing more than peasants!!!
JIHAD!!!!
*Please ignore this if you haven't played Age of Empires*
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Anything hackers can do can be sensed, and the appropriate code put in place to stop the leak.
I go to bed peacefully knowing the internet runs on a series of protocols that is just about as secure as knowing the English language will still exist tomorrow. Someone may misuse it, but that does not render the whole shebang moot.
As long as the Internet is the property of the commons, no one can do much harm to it.
We have a really nice series of plumbing in place now to route information, just as we have plumbing in place to route water and power. Enough people understand how it works that any malfunction can be properly addressed.
If anything brings down the internet, it will be politicians, passing law to grant exclusive controls to certain corporations, which can then fund volleys of lawyers to use the court systems to destroy anything in their path.
Yes, you can see planes crashing into towers, and you see rubble where a magnificient building once stood.. and there is lots of evidence scattered all over of the disaster that took place there, but there is little to see after a swarm of lawyers devastate a small business, but the damage is just as real.
If we don't hold our elected officials to the welfare of this country soon, it appears ownership/litigation will become the only viable way of "earning" an income.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
as I type, a big-ass piece of AT&T's backbone is having major problems.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
There was suppose to be an earth shattering Kaboom!