Teen Nearly Killed us All

[JustAGuy]

They feared it was a terrorist attack. If your system is under attack (regardless if it is terrorist or not) the easiest and fastest way to protect your system and its assets is to sever your connection with the outside and/or shut down the system.

That sounds fine; if your computer is being attacked, turn it off, no more attack. But the origin of the attack -- terrorists? Come on now, how many terrorist attacks have been executed in "cyber-space" in recent memory? If the research facility was so top-secret, how would some terrorists know about it? Why would they immediately fear that a network slowdown was a terrorist attack?

It's like the big black-out last year (was it last year?). Lots of people thought it was a terrorist attack right away, when really, it was just a bunch of people turning on their air conditioning units all at once (not really, but you get the picture).

And to be a terrorist you don't have to wear a turban.

Nor did I say that you had to wear one. I'm just saying that terrorism in the public eye is closely related to the terror attacks of 9/11, attacks that were perpetrated by Muslim Extremists. It's not my fault that there is a stigma surrounding the Mulsim Extremists. No one said you had to wear a turban to be crazy, or to be a freedom fighter. Take your pick at which one they really are. All I know is that the winners of this "war" will write the history books. Terrorists today could turn out to be heroes of the "revolution" in 100 years.

The people who are the real "terrorists" are the American government and the American media. If you define terrorism as being directed towards civilians, all these damn terror alerts, and "be ready" messages from the government sound like terrorizing the people to me. What a scared, fat herd the American population has become. Who's fault is it? Sure isn't mine, and it sure isn't that 16 year old hacker.