Attack of the cyber terrorists

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 5.24.07 | MICHAEL HANLON

[KoRn]

At first it would be no more than a nuisance. No burning skyscrapers, no underground explosions, just a million electronic irritations up and down the land.

Thousands of government web pages suddenly vanish to be replaced with the Internet's version of the Testcard - that dreaded screen '404 - Not Found' or, more amusingly, some pastiche or parody.

Then the Labour website starts to promise a wholesale renationalisation of the railways. The popular response this generates turns to amusement then bemusement as everything from Jaguar to BT is, the sites claim, to be taken back into state hands.

When conservatives.org.uk starts to promise compulsory repatriation and the return of capital punishment, bemusement turns to alarm.

The disruption continues: thousands of popular websites, from eBay to YouTube, start malfunctioning or are replaced by malicious parodies.

Tens of millions of pounds are wiped off the share price of companies like Amazon as fears grow that the whole Internet credit card payment network is now vulnerable and insecure.

Eventually, reports start to flood in that hundreds of thousands of personal bank accounts have been raided overnight.

Panicked bank chiefs and PR men go on TV to try to reassure, promising that this is no more than an electronic glitch, but thousands of anxious citizens take to the streets, many in tears, and pour angrily into the banks to demand their savings in cash.

When the ATM system goes down, the government steps in. A task force is appointed. There is a rush on hard cash that leads to a shortage of notes and coins.

[KoRn]

It's only a matter of time until something like this really happens. If a "cyber-attack" happened in the United States on a large enough scale, our country would be at a stand still.

[Shots]

AH OP ED/tabloid journalism at its finest, ya have to Love it.

Sounds more like someone had to much time on their hands today so wrote this pierce of junk. It tells us nothing more then what we have known for years, but hey its Sunday so lets just stir up the masses with some big conspiracy.

Just to make it clear that is not directed at the poster of the article but the author who wrote it.

[don-o]

Why can’t we have a topic “nit wittery” for crapola like this?