Hacked off by the hype about cyber terrorism

摘要

Stoking up overhyped fears never used to be the province of government. Until the recent 'mistake'―when warnings against terrorist attack by chemical weapons or nuclear 'dirty' bombs were 'accidentally' issued to the press―we relied on government to take a more measured approach, weighing up the risks of attack against the risks of hysteria, and giving sensible advice. That was before it pulled out all the stops to justify a war on Iraq. Inevitably these days we can't talk about the bogeymen of terrorism without talking about cyber terrorism. Nefarious characters with murder in mind populate the radio waves and the internet, we're told, as much as the caves of Afghanistan.