17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Here's the reply I got from a friend that I forwarded it to.... and the verdict is... NetMYTH! I checked the cite in the article on cyberterrorism... no such article ran on 6/2/96 in the Times (London)... nor, in fact, in any newspaper available on Nexis... just thought I would let you know... On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, John Young wrote:
This is the article Winn Schwartau cited to last night:
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The Sunday Times (London), June 2, 1996, pp. 1, 24.
City surrenders to L400m gangs [Insight column]
City of London financial institutions have paid huge sums to international gangs of sophisticated "cyber terrorists" who have amassed up to L400m worldwide by threatening to wipe out computer systems. [...]