For a while now, the security profession has been discussing and debating the notion of cyberterrorism. The idea generally revolves around taking down some significant portion of the Internet and the world would come crashing to its knees.
To date, I have tended to take the saide that says cyberterrorism is pretty difficult simply because there is no visible, imminent death and destruction involved. People are not afraid of the Internet, nor do they care enough about it to be affected if it went down (most people, that is).
The linked article is interesting because it is an indicator that perhaps we have been looking in the wrong direction - 180 degrees, in fact. It is not denial-of-service attacks we should be concerned with, it is the opposite - the availability of the Internet allows for the dissemination of records (like videotapes) of "terroristic" acts without running the risk of being caught in a public place. It is much simpler to perform these acts.
So it is in the interest of cyberterrorists to actually keep the Internet up and running. Go figure.
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