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Al-Qaeda Plot to Bring Down UK Internet?

David Leppard writes in The Sunday Times Online:

Scotland Yard has uncovered evidence that Al-Qaeda has been plotting to bring down the internet in Britain, causing chaos to business and the London Stock Exchange.

In a series of raids, detectives have recovered computer files revealing that terrorist suspects had targeted a high-security internet “hub” in London.

The facility, in Docklands, houses the channel through which almost every bit of information on the internet passes in or out of Britain.

The suspects, who were arrested, had targeted the headquarters of Telehouse Europe, which houses Europe’s biggest “web hotel”, containing dozens of “servers”, the boxes which contain the information that makes up the web.

From the description, it sound like an exchange point was being targeted.

More here.

(Props, Bruce Schneier.)

posted by Fergie @ 3/12/2007 10:35:00 AM