August 26, 2004

Terrorist to Crash Internet Thursday -- Kaspersky Labs Researcher

A Kaspersky Labs researcher said yesterday that terrorists will cripple the Internet August 26 -- today. Europe and the U.S. will be most hard hit, he claims, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. The sky will fall, too, but that's a relatively harmless threat. [ via mike's list ]

On News.com, security experts downplayed the report.