'Electronic Jihad' fails to materialize and does not take place...

As reported by myself yesterday on ATSNN, it was expected that a group of cyber-terrorists would attempt to shut down part of the Internet. Apparently (and thankfully) this "attack" of sorts did not come to pass.

Here's an excerpt from "The Register" in the UK...

The Register | Thursday 26th August 2004 11:06 GMT

Rumours that the Internet would witness a sustained and devastating cyber-attack by Islamic "cyber-terrorists" today have turned out to be completely baseless.

The non-story kicked off earlier this week when Kaspersky Labs execs referred to reports on unspecified Arab websites that Islamic hackers had declared 26 August as a day of "electronic jihad" against Israel. The comments were picked up in the Russian media, resulting in a number of alarmist articles on the supposed threat. "Terrorists will paralyse the Internet on 26 August," reported MosMews.

Read the rest of this story at: www.theregister.co.uk...

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-prophetmike


[edit on 26-8-04 by prophetmike]

Ahem...

Told you so.