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Kevin Poulsen Slams Media Cyberterror Coverage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the put-the-mouse-down-slowly-we've-got-you-covered dept.

Kevin Poulsen has an interesting counterpart25 writes "little ditty in ZDNet's Commentary section about Chicken Little media folks preaching some sort of approaching cyberterrorism debacle. I thought this was particularly interesting in light of the recent Jane's article flap." Meanwhile, a BBC story submitted byThe Big D tells how the "Islamic group of Hackers (Al-Sooraj wing)" participated in the recent Pakistani military coup.

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  1. From the BBC Story.. by Awel · · Score: 2



    However, webpages dedicated to Pakistan's political parties have been left untouched.


    In other words, only the governmental webpages have been touched. Now, the government has just been taken over by the army whose exploits are so gloriously lauded in the new-look webpages. Am I the only one who thinks that it`s far more likely that the army got hold of the host box as part of the takeover, and that it wasn`t cracked at all?