"E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin

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"E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 26, 2004 @05:03AM 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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They lied to us! by chrispyman · 2004-08-26 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

And I used to figure, if it's on the internet it must be true! There goes that theory...
1. Re:They lied to us! by Three+Headed+Man · 2004-08-26 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I would have thought we'd have a "NO CARRIER" joke as the first post for sure.
  
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  I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood :)
2. Re:They lied to us! by timeOday · 2004-08-26 07:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  A false alarm? Have you no appreciation for the dedicated security professionals who exposed and headed off the conspiracy? The complete lack of destruction only testifies to our brilliance and validates our security plan, bow down before us!!!
"E-Jihad"? by grunt107 · 2004-08-26 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Sounds like a "E-Jihadn't"
Two things you usually don't see together by lucabrasi999 · 2004-08-26 05:05 · Score: 5, Funny

News Media

and

Exaggerated
1. Re:Two things you usually don't see together by eln · 2004-08-26 05:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  There's some sort of strange comfort in knowing that the American media is not alone in this sort of behavior, at least.
  
  Oh, who am I kidding, journalism as a profession is doomed. They may as well just give out degrees in "reporting sensationalist nonsense" and be done with it.
ISC Handlers put it best by UnderAttack · 2004-08-26 05:05 · Score: 4, Funny

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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---- join dshield.org Distributed Intrusion Detec
oh crap by TedCheshireAcad · 2004-08-26 05:06 · Score: 5, Funny

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?
Ahem... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-26 05:06 · Score: 4, Interesting

Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks says, "There have been no precursors to a large-scale attack."
Except maybe for a couple of russian jetliners going down simultaneously out of the same airport.
Obligatory... by CaptainPuff · 2004-08-26 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny

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
1. Re:Obligatory... by Stevyn · 2004-08-26 05:12 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  my box gets port probed all day
  It's nice to see woman visit this site, but please keep those details to a minimum.
E-Terror Level by johnkoer · 2004-08-26 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny

The E-Terror level has subsequently been lowered to #FFFF00

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E-slam? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-26 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Is e-jihad a characteristic of the E-slam faith?
Ha! by east+coast · 2004-08-26 05:09 · Score: 4, Funny

I knew it was just a big lie... There was no way those cowards were going to sd #4f d# $ i%5@

NO CARRIER

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Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
I know why by StevenHenderson · 2004-08-26 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny

They were going to launch the attack, but the amazing security of XP SP2 has made potential victims impenetrable fortresses!
1. Re:I know why by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-26 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Actually SP2 was the threat they were referring to
Bright side by metlin · 2004-08-26 05:09 · Score: 5, Insightful

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 :)
Oh Man by quaketripp · 2004-08-26 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

I bet Al Gore is releived to hear is was a hoax, his baby was in jeopardy.
e-jihad.com by acceleriter · 2004-08-26 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

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Well, doh. by argent · 2004-08-26 05:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

We knew it was a hoax yesterday.

Hot news! Obvious hoax TURNS OUT TO BE HOAX!

*sigh*
Re:US media vs other countries by Dr.+Evil · 2004-08-26 06:16 · Score: 4, Insightful

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"