Attack of the Cyber Terrorists ; Angry Mobs in the Streets. Stock Market in Meltdown.The Country Running Out of Cash. No, Not a Sci-Fi Film but the Nightmare Reality of Britain Under Cyber Attack ...

Daily MailMay 25, 2007

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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.

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Attack of the Cyber Terrorists ; Angry Mobs in the Streets. Stock Market in Meltdown.The Country Running Out of Cash. No, Not a Sci-Fi Film but the Nightmare Reality of Britain Under Cyber Attack ...

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 malfunctionin...

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